Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0

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2 total messages Started by tisalli Thu, 05 Nov 1992 13:15

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Author: tisalli
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 13:15

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Hi everybody !

Is it possible to use Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0? I know that it's possible to
write them alone in one cell, but what I need is to use to different fonts in
the same cell in order to write such things as alpha-particle, gamma-globulin,
etc. I have tried to import such texts from WP for Windows and Word, but the
Greek letters just seem to vanish somewhere. Anyone have any ideas how to do
this?


Timo Sallinen
Medical physics
University of Turku
Finland

Re: Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0

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Author: Joel Spolsky
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:45

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In article <..> Timo Sallinen (tisalli@sara.cc.utu.fi) writes:
>Is it possible to use Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0? I know that it's possible to
>write them alone in one cell, but what I need is to use to different fonts in
>the same cell in order to write such things as alpha-particle, gamma-globulin,
>etc. I have tried to import such texts from WP for Windows and Word, but the
>Greek letters just seem to vanish somewhere. Anyone have any ideas how to do
>this?

You are probably using the greek letters from the Symbol font.
Unfortunately, Excel doesn't allow multiple fonts in the same cell. The
best workaround is to create a text box the size of the cell, because
text boxes allow multiple fonts. You can create a text box the exact
size of a cell by holding down the Alt key while you drag.

--
Joel Spolsky
Program Manager / Microsoft Excel
joelsp@microsoft.com

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