mathematical symbol: ±
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In Word, choose Insert>Symbol>More Symbols. In the Character code field, type 00B1 to get a plus sign with a minus below it. If you are using a font like Cambria Math, you can also type in 2213 to get a minus sign with a plus below it.
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As per your description, in Microsoft Word, used a pre-defined shortcut key:
Type 00b1 and immediately press Alt+X to insert the symbol: ±
Also, click on Insert tab>click on Symbol> More Symbols>under Subset: select Latin-1 Supplement from drop down List.
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In a standard 104 key keyboard, they are next to the numerical 0 key on the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard, and require the Shift key to be pressed. Laptops tend to follow the standard QWERTY layout, although some keys do get moved.
On a US (as well as UK)keyboard.
For + press shift+=. This is the key to the left of backspace.
For - press -. This is the key to the left of =.
The same way a " ⇒ " pops up when I type "=" and ">", a ± could show up if I typed "+" and "-"
This is the only one I have seen in unicode (plus over minus):
±
HTML/XML Character reference:
±
HTML Named Entity:
±
This symbol is used to indicate the precision of an approximation.
You can approximate it to some extent with a superscript plus (U+207A), a division slash (U+2215) and a subscript minus (U+208B):
⁺∕₋
However, it requires font support to get right. Especially the super- and subscript +/− are not available in most fonts, so it might just render horribly.
For reference, that's how it looks for me (better than five years ago, but still somewhat broken):
However, using Cambria Math in Word 2010 it looks like this:
Which probably is exactly how it should look like (follows the same typesetting rules as fractions).
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