Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to Reply. I'm on a Mac, and our Menu looks completely different. I'd seen Unicode combinations online, but I just want to type it, I don't want to re-learn what little codeword I knew 20 years ago. LOL
I did find it, though, just when your Reply came in.
In Office / Word for Mac,
Go to
>Menu Bar across the top of the screen (not the application Menu).
>select Insert Menu (from Menu Bar, not Application!)
>scroll down to Insert Equation
>it will insert an Equation Box
>toward the right side of the Word Menu, click on Accents
>select the blank box with the ^ above it
>blank box with ^ above it will appear in the Equation Box
>type 'y' in the little blank box.
>Voila! I get the math character I need (I did NOT want to type y-hat in my MBA math class!!!
Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to Reply. I'm on a Mac, and our Menu looks completely different. I'd seen Unicode combinations online, but I just want to type it, I don't want to re-learn what little codeword I knew 20 years ago. LOL
I did find it, though, just when your Reply came in.
In Office / Word for Mac,
Go to
>Menu Bar across the top of the screen (not the application Menu).
>select Insert Menu (from Menu Bar, not Application!)
>scroll down to Insert Equation
>it will insert an Equation Box
>toward the right side of the Word Menu, click on Accents
>select the blank box with the ^ above it
>blank box with ^ above it will appear in the Equation Box
>type 'y' in the little blank box.
>Voila! I get the math character I need (I did NOT want to type y-hat in my MBA math class!!!
Hello TheriSB.
Look please here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/linear...
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Hi Andrew,
In Word 2011 for Mac, click Insert>Equation. And then select Hat in Accent. Input number in the square. At last, you will get the number with hat.
Best regards,
Tim
Hi Andrew,
If you have other questions about Office 365 for Business, please feel free to post new threads in our forum.
Regards,
Tim
You can just hold down the vowel and a menu appears for a e i o u. But not for y. Anyone have a work around?
While the long click works, specifically for the characters ü and ö in macOS you can click Option+U for umlaut, then type the key you want to have an umlaut. This was done on a macOS U.S. English keyboard.
- For
ä, click Option+U and then click A. - For
ë, click Option+U and then click E. - For
ï, click Option+U and then click I. - For
ö, click Option+U and then click O. - For
ü, click Option+U and then click U. - For
ÿ, click Option+U and then click Y.
This works for uppercase as well as lowercase characters and there are other similar items such as:
- Option+E for an acute accent like
é. - Option+I for a circumflex like
î.
This guide for “Using Symbols and Diacritical Marks on macOS” from Reed College seems like a pretty good reference:
Diacritical Name Appearance Key Command Acute á, é, í Option+e, then the letter you wish to accent. Grave è, à, ù Option+`, then the letter you wish to accent. Tilde ñ Ñ Option+n, then the letter you wish to accent. Circumflex ê Ê Option+i, then the letter you wish to accent. Umlaut ä Ä ö Ö ü Ü Option+u, then the letter you wish to accent. Cedilla ç Ç Option+c or C Inverted Question Mark ¿ Option+? Inverted Exclamation Mark ¡ Option+1 Esszet ß Option+s Pound £ Option+3 Cents ¢ Option+4 Pilcrow (paragraph) ¶ Option+7 Section § Option+6 Degree º Option+0 Copyright Option+g Delta ∆ Option+j Bullet • Option+8
Just long press u on the keyboard and it will display something like this:
Then, press 2(mine is 2, maybe yours is 1, 3, etc.) on the keyboard and ü will appear.
To enter ö, just do the same thing: long press o on your keyboard, then press 2(mine is 2, maybe yours is 1, 3, etc.).