How to Use Symbols and Special Characters in Excel

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use symbols and special characters in Excel.



Step 1. Start your Excel and open up the workbook that you want to work with.
open Excel workbook

Step 2. Click “Start” and in the Search box type “charmap”. Press “Enter”.
Windows Character selector pops up.
charmap” in Search box

Step 3. Select the font of Symbol, and scroll down toward the symbol of your choice. In our case, we’ll pick “sigma”, the Greek symbol for sum. Click “Select”, then “Copy” to collect the character.
select symbol of your choice

Step 4. Switch to Excel, and paste the symbol where it needs to be. Change the font to Symbol to display it properly.
Here it is, the special character that we collected. We will also add some sums to fill in the row.
paste the symbol

Result: Congratulations, you have learned how to use symbols and special characters in Excel.