

Some special characters can be inserted by pressing ALT+#, where the # is entered using the number pad. Windows: Inserting Special Symbols Using ALT Codes If you have found the Decimal code (which I have listed on this page for many symbols), you display it in html as NNNN (leaving out the "x"). You can use the hexidecimal Character code value to display a character in html by entering it as NNNN where NNNN is the hex code. Unfortunately, there isn't a good search feature to find what you want. IMPORTANT: The Arial font doesn't list many Unicode symbols, so change the Font to " Segoe UI Symbol" then in the Subset dropdown, select " Miscellaneous Symbols" and start scrolling down. It will tell you the name of the symbol as well as the character code. You can browse some of the unicode characters using the Insert > Symbol dialog. My favorite searchable resource for seeing what emojis look like in other software is 2. If you are editing the text or formula within a cell, then it will paste just the character (instead of the formatting from the web page). Usually, you can just select the unicode character from your browser and press Ctrl+ c to copy it, then Ctrl+ v to paste it into Excel. After inserting one check mark, you can use the Recently used symbols to quickly insert another check mark.There are many places on the internet to find lists of unicode characters.

Note: you can also insert a check mark symbol with a box around it (see picture above). Select Wingdings 2 from the drop-down list, select a check mark and click Insert. On the Insert tab, in the Symbols group, click Symbol.ħ. Here you can find other symbols as well.Ħ. Instead of executing step 1 and 2, you can also use the Insert tab to insert a check mark symbol. Use CTRL + c and CTRL + v to copy/paste a check mark or red X. Now you can create a nice to-do list that uses check marks. To insert a fancy red X, press SHIFT + O to insert a capital O and change the font color to red.ĥ. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, use the Align buttons to center the check mark horizontally and vertically.Ĥ.

To insert a fancy check mark, change the font color to green, change the font size to 12 and apply bold formatting.ģ. On the Home tab, in the Font group, select the Wingdings 2 font.
