What is symbol for 'square metres'? in Word General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              Geoplay 7/1/2006 11:32 PM PST   Question   I'm trying to use m2 in a word document and cannot find a symbol for it. Has one been included?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Doug Robbins - Word MVP 7/1/2006 11:47 PM PST   Answer   Type m, then hold down the Alt key and on the numeric keypad type 0178. That will give you m². -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Geoplay" <Geoplay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6BC67CD4-D579-43E6-BDE3-1FA20E68139C@microsoft.com... > I'm trying to use m2 in a word document and cannot find a symbol for it. > Has one been included? >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Geoplay 7/2/2006 4:27 AM PST   Thank you, that's just what I wanted. Incidentally, when I received an email of your reply, I got a message that the page was not available when I clicked on the link, so I had to go the long way round to get there; something wrong somewhere! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > Type m, then hold down the Alt key and on the numeric keypad type 0178. > That will give you m². > > -- > Hope this helps. > > Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my > services on a paid consulting basis. > > Doug Robbins - Word MVP > > "Geoplay" <Geoplay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:6BC67CD4-D579-43E6-BDE3-1FA20E68139C@microsoft.com... > > I'm trying to use m2 in a word document and cannot find a symbol for it. > > Has one been included? > > > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Patrick Schmid 7/2/2006 12:25 AM PST   You prob want to use m and then a superscript 2 (that should be in the symbols): m² Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Geoplay" <Geoplay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6BC67CD4-D579-43E6-BDE3-1FA20E68139C@microsoft.com: > I'm trying to use m2 in a word document and cannot find a symbol for it. > Has one been included?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies