Apart from being an extremely engineering focused solution rather than a user experience focused one, the Alt Codes only worked when using the numbers on the numeric keypad of a keyboard, and not when using the numbers from the top row of the keyboard.
#How to get greek letters in google docs code#
Technique 2: Use Alt Codes… basically you hold down the Alt key and type the 3 or 4 digit code for the character you want. Not only is this method really messy and cumbersome, it doesn’t solve the problem of typing a message in Gmail, where inserting special characters is not an option. Technique 1: Use the Insert > Special Characters option in Docs. “If Google Docs is ever to be a credible alternative to Office, they really need to fix this!”Īfter Googling around for a solution, the suggested workarounds were (in my opinion) unsatisfactory from a user perspective (and hence me taking the time to write this blog post… hopefully this might be helpful to someone else trying to solve the same problem). Lots of people were complaining about the poor diacritical mark support in Google Docs. Searching for a solution online revealed that we were not the only ones who were struggling with this issue. “It’s ridiculous that Google Docs can’t do such basic things when it’s so easy in Word and Outlook” was the general consensus. Prior to the move to Google, our language teachers knew all the various keyboard shortcuts to enter these characters into a program like Word or Outlook, and life was good.Īfter the move to Gmail and Docs however, these same keyboard shortcuts no longer worked, making the potential move to Google Docs seem like a bad idea for language teaching. French, for example, uses accented characters like é, è, ç, å and so on. We teach several different languages here at PLC Sydney and many of them requires the use of special characters. However, if you need to insert any Greek alphabet frequently, then creating auto substitution may save much time.After our recent move to the Google cloud and all the services within it like Docs and Gmail, our Languages department have had to face a few new challenges. The Insert Special Character method is the most general method where you can search for any Greek symbol. The above method you should be able to insert any special character in Google docs with a breeze. to insert α hold down Alt key and type 224 (Alt code for lower case Greek Letter Alpha). You can insert any special characters including Greek Alphabets in Google Docs using Alt Code too. Method 3: Google Docs Alt Code for Greek Letters To test, type the shortcut text (that you had set as auto substitution) anywhere in Google doc, hit space and Voila! The special character should automatically pop up in its place.Whenever the shortcut text is type, it gets automatically converted into set special character / text on hitting space. In the Replace box type the desired shortcut text (say \alpha for α) and in the With box paste the symbol (copied in clipboard) that you want to create Auto substitution.In the preferences window click on substitution tab and make sure that box against Automatic substitution is checked.Copy the special character into your clipboard.Insert special character as you would normally do (using any of the above method).Steps to set up auto substitute for any text/character/symbol are as follows But once in place, you can insert any Greek letter (or any special character) with a flash. However, it requires a bit of work to set up. Method 2: Auto Substitute (fastest but requires little setup)Īuto substitute feature of Google Docs could be the fastest way to inset any symbol.
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