Adding Symbols to Cell Format

A few days ago there was a post regarding formatting a chart with pi.
I replied with a way to add the 2 characters "pi" to the displayed number by using the custom value formating facility.
This has been playing on my mind since, what if I wanted to use the Greek symbol rather than the text "pi".

Several symbols can be added by holding down Alt and typing in a number on the numeric keypad
(for example ° is Alt 248 and ± is Alt 241 etc.) but pi is not one of the symbols available by this route.

I can't find any (other) way to include a symbol in the custom format.
Can anyone else?

Mark.

try alt+0182

Hi Mark,

It is an excellent question ... I never the time to search about it ...

I remember cheating ... by opening Word, inserting symbols with mathematical operators I could access pi and sygma ...
and copy paste them ...

HTH
Carim

Hi VBA Noob,

Which XL version are you running ?

Carim