Inputting Greek symbols to word/onenote

[pretend my name is witty]

I'm typing up some of my lecture notes using onenote at the moment (I know I'm missing out on a lot of it's functionality by using a PC, but I like the structure of how it saves things).

I've got to type in a lot of formulae, which means putting in a lot of greek characters like sigma, delta etc and other characters like the integral symbol.

In Microsoft Word, I had a lot of keyboard shortcuts set up that enabled me to quickly put them into the document. Onenote does not have this (for now, I'm using the trial version, but I dont think this will be the problem).

I've searched the web for the ASCII codes for the characters, but can't find them anywhere. Does anyone else know a better method for inputing them into text?

Someone here must know!

Thank you in advance...

[Agent Foxtrot]

I don't know what "onenote" is, but you can access special characters using the Windows Character Map. Go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories - > System Tools to open it. From there you can copy any characters in any font and paste them into your program.

Hope it helps.

Adam

[pretend my name is witty]

Thank you, but I'm looking for a way that's a little faster! Onenote is another part of the office suite, it's for making notes on meetings/classes.

It still has the insert>symbol option, but that's a little slow for me! In word I know the shortcuts and can insert them without using the mouse at all.

I thought there was a series of codes that you could use to type ALT+1234 or somethign and it'd come up with the symbol that you'd need. Anyone know where I can find these codes?

[Agent Foxtrot]

Thank you, but I'm looking for a way that's a little faster! Onenote is another part of the office suite, it's for making notes on meetings/classes.

It still has the insert>symbol option, but that's a little slow for me! In word I know the shortcuts and can insert them without using the mouse at all.

I thought there was a series of codes that you could use to type ALT+1234 or somethign and it'd come up with the symbol that you'd need. Anyone know where I can find these codes?You are correct; ALT+### will insert certain corresponding ASCII identities into the current document, but not all symbols have ALT+### references. ∑, for example, doesn't have one.

Adam

[Tevildo]

I should point out that there are no _ASCII_ codes for Greek letters. The codes needed for Greek letters vary depending on what font and encoding scheme the document uses, so, unless you know this, there won't be a definite ALT sequence that's always valid.

The standard encoding scheme for Greek is ISO-8559-7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7); your documents probably use this, but they _may_ use the old CP737 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_737) instead. Try both and see what happens.