Step-by-step guide on how to make a flowchart directly in Microsoft Word, including formatting and tips to using Lucidchart's MS Word Add-On to help save you. To the autocorrection in Microsoft Word) it wont do this in Pages. The other autocorrections do work, but this one won't. The arrow symbol is a copy from the symbol Pages let's you insert in the special characters window. This is available everywhere in OSX, with possible exception of Microsoft's software.
Microsoft Word gives you the ability to create many shapes in your documents, and some of the more useful ones are lines and arrows. You can use these to good effect to help illustrate your points. For example, you might like to add some descriptive text for an image and then 'point' to the image. To create a line, click Insert Shapes. As you can see, there is a huge selection of shapes we can draw. The options we need are positioned close to the top of the panel in the Lines category. They allow us to draw straight lines, stright lines with corners, curved lines and closed polygons.
We can also draw lines that have arrows at one or both ends, too. To draw a line, either with or without and arrow, click on a tool and then click and drag in your document. Clicking once for the start of the line and again for the end has the same effect. Adjusting The Line You can select a line by clicking on it, and once selected you can move it in any direction by using the arrow keys on your keyboard. To delet the line, just press the delete key or backspace. Suppose you want to resize the line though, either to lengthen or shorten it.
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You can do that too. First of all select the line and then hover the mouse over one end. When the cursor changes to a 'plus sign' (without arrows on it) you can click and drag to move that end.
When the line is selected, you might also notice that the Drawing Tools contextual tab appears in the ribbon. We won't cover what effects you can apply to the line in this tutorial, but there are plenty worth investigating by way of some trial and error.
Option 1: If you have the Lucida Sans Unicode font installed (check the font list in Word) you are in luck. When you want to insert a symbol, click on the Insert menu and choose Symbol. In the font box select Lucida Sans Unicode. You will see a very rich selection of specialized characters available for use in Mathematical Operators. Here are a few that might be useful. ⇌ equilibrium symbol code no. 21CC ¯ anion charge 00AF ° degree symbol 00b0 ℃ degrees Celsius 2103 √ radical 221A → reaction arrow 2192 ∆ increment 2206 ≈ is approximately equal to 2248 Now, here is an even easier way to get the equilibrium symbol.
With the cursor at the insertion point where you want the symbol to appear, type 21cc, then press ALT and X simultaneously. If you have the Lucida Sans Unicode font available, this will type the equilibrium symbol without going to the insert symbol menu.
This method will work with any of the symbols above, substituting the appropriate code before typing ALT+X. Option 2: For MS Word 2007/2010/2013: use the equation feature, designed for math, but works okay for chemistry.
Go to the insert tab. Click on the equation button on the far right.
Here are also shortcut commands to render most common things. For example, underscore creates a subscript and a caret ^ creates a super script. You have access to a wide range of arrows from a pull down menu, but - will give you a simple right arrow (although it is not very long). To get a long arrow, click on the operator button and choose the arrow with the word 'yields' written over it under common operator structures.
Click on the word 'yields' and replace it with as many spaces as you need to create an arrow of whatever length you want. Finally, finish your equation. For older versions of MS Word, go to the insert menu and click on equation, which launches the Equation Editor Program (you can also find this program on your computer by searching for eqnedt.exe), which gives you the same ability to create equations.