Microsoft Office Tick Symbol
Hidden amongst the myriad of symbols that Word provide, but it is there. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon; Click the Symbol button and select More Symbols from the list; Select Wingdings from the Font: list; In the Character code: box, type 252; Click Insert; After using it, the tick symbol will be added to the Recently used symbols: list. To insert a tick symbol in a Microsoft program, such as Excel, Outlook, Word, Publisher or OneNote, click the Symbol button. Choose Wingdings in the Font drop-down menu, and scroll to the check mark symbol. Click the Symbol button.
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To make the content of your document more intuitive and lively, adding symbols like tick, cross, check box, etc. is an effective method. But what’s the fastest way to insert them? Sure you can copy and paste from Internet If it’s a one-time thing. Otherwise you’d probably better to enter them in Word directly.
1. Insert Symbol
Like the way to add other special symbols in Word, you can click Symbol and choose More Symbols… in Insert tab.
Change the Font in Symbols tab to Wingdings 2.
Then you can find these symbols in the list below. Just click any of them (as you like) and hit Insert to add it.
This is the most simple way, which only requires you to change the font of Word and using keyboard shortcuts.
First, select Wingdings 2 in the drop-down list of font.
Then you can press Shift and several different letters to insert different symbols. Here I collected symbols with the corresponding shortcuts:
Addition to tick mark, cross mark and check box, you can also insert some other symbols with shortcuts in the font of Wingdings 2. Have a try when you have time!
Relevant Reading
A tick or a cross symbol can help to clarify your point in Word document, but apparently there are no corresponding keys on the keyboard. So you must take some steps to insert them just like type other special symbols. Here I collected some effective methods, you can choose any one of them to insert a check mark (√) or error mark (×) in Word.
Insert Tick or Cross Symbols
1. Click Symbol in Insert tab, choose More Symbols… in the drop-down menu.
2. Choose the Font as Wingdings 2 under Symbols tab.
3. Then you can find tick and cross symbols very easily. Just select the one you want, and hit Insert button to add it to your document.
Change the Font to Wingdings 2
1. To simplify the process, you can directly change the font in Home tab to Wingdings 2 at first.
2. Then if you enter the capital letter “O”, it will be displayed as a cross symbol, and “P” will be displayed as a tick symbol.
Microsoft Office Tick Symbol Copy
3. Similarly, you can enter the capital letter at first, and then select it and change its font (either in Home tab or right-click menu) to Wingdings 2.
Change the Font to Wingdings
1. Alternately, you can change the font into Wingdings instead of Wingdings 2.
2. Press and hold the [Alt] key while enter the corresponding code on numeric pad. Then you can type the check mark or cross mark easily. The codes are as below:
√ – [Alt] + 0252
Microsoft Office Check Symbol
× – [Alt] + 0251
Microsoft Office Tick Symbol
The method 1 and 2 can also be applied to Microsoft Excel. And if you want to insert a box with tick or cross, you can also check this post → How to Quick Insert a Box with Tick or Cross in Microsoft Word
As for other mathematical symbols, lick here → 5 Methods to Insert Mathematical Symbols in Word