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Do you want to add a degree symbol on your slide? Or do you want to add one of the currency symbols? Or even the trademark or copyright symbols?PowerPoint provides several ways to add such symbols, but the most straightforward option is to use the Symbol dialog box.Let us now explore how you can add symbols within your text containers inPowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Follow these steps to learn more:

1. Open your existing presentation, or create a new one. Whichever you use, find a container object that uses text, such as a text placeholder,a text box, a shape, a table, a chart, or anything else, and click at the point where you want to add a symbol to establish an insertion point, asshown in Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: Establish an insertion point
2. Access the Insert tab of the Ribbon, and click the Symbol button, as shown inFigure 2, below.
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   Figure 2: Click the Symbol button
3. This brings up the Symbol dialog box, that you can see in Figure 3, below.
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   Figure 3: The Symbol dialog box
5. Options in this dialog box are explained, as marked in Figure 3, above.

A. Font

6. By default, PowerPoint does not choose any particular font and any symbol you select will work with all fonts.However, you can change the font to a particular one by clicking the required font within the Font dropdown list, asshown in Figure 4, below. You can also choose the (latin text) option, but it does not seem to makeany difference on our system.
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   Figure 4: Insert symbols by choosing a specific font
8. This option to choose a specific font can be beneficial, if you want to access a dingbat font, such as Wingdings,as shown in Figure 5, below.
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   Figure 5: Choose to insert characters from a dingbat font

B. Subset

10. Rather than making you scroll the entire Preview area, you can quickly go to the section you wantto access via the Subset drop-down list, shown in Figure 6, below.
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    Figure 6: Subset drop-down

C. Preview

12. This area includes a grid that shows all characters available to you. You can scroll up and down to see morecharacters, or even use the Subset drop-down list to go quickly to a particular area you want.
Tip: Double-click any character to quickly add it to your insertion point in PowerPoint. You can double-click charactersin succession, one after the other, to add multiple characters even faster this way.

D. Recently used symbols

13. PowerPoint remembers the last few symbols you used, and places them in the Recently used symbols area,to provide you with quick access.

E. Character code

14. You will see the character code of the character you selected in the Preview area here. You can alsotype in a character code within this area, if needed.

F. Encoding Standard

15. Options in the Encoding standard dropdown list will differ, based upon the font you choose in the Fontdrop-down list. For instance, if you choose a dingbat font like Wingdings, then the Encoding standard drop-down list will show different options.With default Font options selected, the Encoding standard drop-down list may look like what you see in Figure 7, below.
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    Figure 7: Encoding standards drop-down list

Encoding standards, Unicode, and ASCII

Want to know more about Unicode, ASCII, and encoding standards? Look at outWhat's a Unicode Font? post.

G. Unicode name

17. Other than the character code, Unicode standards include a plain English name for each character.
4. Once you have chosen the symbol character you want to insert, click the Insert button, highlightedin red within Figure 3, to place it at the cursor position. Otherwise,click the Cancel button.

Many dedicated programs do only flowcharts, and although Microsoft creates another program called Visio for Windows users that's more flowchart savvy thanmainstream Microsoft Office programs, there's no version of Visio available for Mac users. And it really doesn't matter too much if all you need to do is createa basic flowchart because you can create flowcharts within your other Office programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint! Why do we put forth such arecommendation? That's because these Microsoft Office programs already have all the abilities and options you need to create almost any type of flowchart youneed - what's more, you don’t have to buy and learn yet another program to do something that really is so simple!

Actually, adding a flowchart within a Microsoft Office program is as simple as adding a few shapes - we will use MicrosoftPowerPoint 2011 for Mac in this example but you could really be using Word or Excel versions of Office2011 to do the same task - even the Ribbon options you will encounter are the same.

If you already need to create a flowchart in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint – then the choice has already been made for you! Alternatively, here are some thoughtsthat will help you decide which of these three programs work best for your flowcharts:

• Word is great for simple flowcharts with few shapes as long as they all fit within the page constraints of Word.
• PowerPoint has similar slide constraints like Word's page constraints – but for larger flowcharts, you can use PowerPoint's hyperlinkingoptions that let you spread the same flowchart over multiple slides.
• Excel’s large screen real estate within each workbook does make it a great home for detailed or complicated flowcharts.

Follow these steps to get started:

1. Let’s start with a blank, new slide that just has a slide title and nothing else, as shown in Figure 1, below. If you are usingWord, just substitute the blank slide area with a blank area on your document – Excel users can similarly use an available, blank range of cells in theirworkbook.
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   Figure 1: Empty slide with a title
2. In PowerPoint or Word, access the Home tab of the Ribbon,locate the Insert group and within this group, click the Shape button. This brings up the Shape drop-down gallery,as shown in Figure 2.
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   Figure 2: Shape drop-down gallery
4. In Excel (or even Word and PowerPoint), select the InsertShape menu option. This brings upa Media browser window, with the Shapes tab active, as shown in Figure 3.
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   Figure 3: Media browser
3. There are plenty of shapes that are arranged in variouscategories, to create flowcharts, and only two of these categories matter to you – these are the Lines and Connectors andFlowchart categories, highlighted in red and blue respectively withinFigures 2 and 3, above.
4. Let us now explore the various shapes available within these categories – first let us explore the Flowchart category. There are28 flowchart shapes available here – hover your cursor over any of these shapes to see a tool tip that provides you with the name/description of the hoveredshape (see Figure 4, below).
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   Figure 4: Flowchart shapes are described within the tool tips
Note: Want to know more about all the flowchart shapes? Look at ourFlowchart Symbols: What They Represent? page.
5. Now select the Terminator shape within the Flowchart shapes gallery (see Figure 5).
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   Figure 5: Select the Terminator shape
6. Your cursor will turn into a crosshair – drag and draw on your slide, document, or worksheet to place an instance of the terminator shape, as shownin Figure 6, below.
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   Figure 6: Place a Terminator shape to start your flowchart
7. With your terminator shape still selected, start typing (we just typed “Start”). Anything you type shows up within the flowchart shape,as shown in Figure 7, below.
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   Figure 7: Text within your flowchart shape
8. Now add a shape to represent a decision. Choose the Decision (Diamond) shape option from the Flowchart categorywithin the Shapes gallery (refer to Figure 4, above) – then drag and draw to place an instance of the shape on your slide(or document / sheet) – then type in some text – we just typed “Are you happy?”, as shown in Figure 8, below.
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   Figure 8: Text that makes you happy?
9. We now need to link the Terminator shape to the Decision shape using a 'connector' – to do so, access theShape drop-down gallery (see Figure 2, above) and select the second shape within the Lines and Connectorscategory (see Figure 9, below). This shape is a connector that has an arrowhead at one end. We need the arrowhead end of the connector to be'connected' to your Decision shape – and the non-arrowhead end will emanate from the Terminator shape. We won't get into detailsabout how connectors work in this tutorial – you can learn more about connectors in ourUsing Flowchart and Connector Shapes Together in Office 2011tutorial.
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    Figure 9: Choose a connector with an arrowhead
10. Figure 10 shows a connector that links both our shapes. To make sure that your connector indeed 'connects', select any shape, andhit any of the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge the shape -- you will find that the connector reorients according to the new position of your moved shape.
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    Figure 10: Shapes connected to each other
11. Similarly, add two more shapes that connect to your existing Decision shape, as shown in Figure 11, below. Weadded a connected Process (rectangle) shape on the right and another connected Decision (diamond) shape at the bottom.
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    Figure 11: More shapes added to the flowchart
12. As you can see within Figure 11, above – there are two options emanating from the 'Are you happy?' decision shape. Decision shapestypically have more than one output emanating from them so as to create a decision – in this case, the decision will be based on whether the answer tothe “Are you happy?” question is Yes or No. We therefore need to identify the two emanating connectors as Yesor No to make this flowchart sequence logical. To do that, you need to place text boxes with Yes and No captionsnext to the relevant connectors – this is explained in ourFormatting Connectors within Flowcharts in Office 2011tutorial.
13. Once you add Yes and No captions to your connectors, your flowchart will look similar to the one shown inFigure 12, below.
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    Figure 12: Flowchart with Yes and No captions
14. Continue adding flowchart shapes and link them with connectors. Finally, you will need to add a 'Stop' Terminator shape to completeyour flowchart, as shown in Figure 13, below.
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    Figure 13: Complete Flowchart
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