Character Map Shortcuts, How To

MVP Chip Pearson has a free add-in called "Symbolizer"
that you can download. It's the Excel equivalent of
MSWord's Insert Symbol.

www.cpearson.com/excel/chars.htm

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

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For Excel users the character map is found way way out in
the back 40 in
Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map.
Once there I can
choose a symbol then copy and paste to my worksheet.
There must be an
easier way to grab a fraction or other symbol that
doesn't have a
keyboard shortcut assigned to it. In MSWord the Character
Map is found
in Insert/Symbol and is real easy to use (compared to
Excel). (1) Is
there a way to get a shortcut to the Character Map on the
toolbar in
Excel? (2) Where can I find a llst of keyboard shortcuts
for the
fractions and math symbols shown in the character map?
(3) Is there a
way to create user assigned keyboard shortcuts to symbols
shown in the
Character Map?


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.

Kent

Place this macro in your Personal.xls then add a button to your toolbar to run
it.

Sub CharMap()
Dim taskID As Variant
On Error Resume Next
taskID = Shell("start Charmap.exe")
If Err 0 Then _
MsgBox "CHARMAP.EXE is not installed on your machine."
End Sub

If need help with macros and coding post back or see David McRitchie's
"getting started with macros" site.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:29:46 -0600, Kent
wrote:

For Excel users the character map is found way way out in the back 40 in
Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map. Once there I can
choose a symbol then copy and paste to my worksheet. There must be an
easier way to grab a fraction or other symbol that doesn't have a
keyboard shortcut assigned to it. In MSWord the Character Map is found
in Insert/Symbol and is real easy to use (compared to Excel). (1) Is
there a way to get a shortcut to the Character Map on the toolbar in
Excel? (2) Where can I find a llst of keyboard shortcuts for the
fractions and math symbols shown in the character map? (3) Is there a
way to create user assigned keyboard shortcuts to symbols shown in the
Character Map?


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