How to Find and Insert Symbols in Google Docs
Google Docs is a popular word processor. Its seamless integration with other Google apps and services, as well as offline editing capabilities, are some of its key strengths. Like other word processors, it’s possible to also insert symbols into Google Docs. Sometimes, however, finding the perfect symbol can often be challenging.
In this article, we’ll show you how to insert symbols in Google Docs and, more importantly, how to find symbols in Google Docs by drawing or attempting to draw them.
How to Insert Symbols in Google Docs
Symbols or special characters help to improve uniformity, legibility, and comprehension, especially when dealing with mathematical or scientific text/units. Inserting symbols in Google Docs is simple. Here’s how:
How to Find Symbols in Google Docs by Drawing Them
You can try drawing a symbol in Google Docs if you can’t seem to find it using the method described above. And no, you do not have to be a fine artist or calligraphist to do this. All you need is a mouse/laptop trackpad and a faint idea of what the symbol looks like.
Although you canuse and edit Google Docs offline, you’ll need to be online to draw symbols. That being said, Here’s how to find symbols in Google Docs by drawing them.
You can also check outhow to type Chinese symbols and other foreign characters in Windows.
Find Any Symbol in Google Docs
Using the methods described above, you can easily find and insert symbols in Google Docs, provided they are already available in the symbols library.
If you frequently have to use symbols that aren’t available in Google Docs, it’s possible to create a separate spreadsheet for them using Google Sheets, then copy and paste them as needed.
Google Sheets does not come with a native method to insert special characters. But these two workarounds can solve the problem.
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