Hi You can select in Writer or Calc, menu:
Insert-Symbol-Subset-Basic Greek and there you found alpha symbol and other like this. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez ______________ El jue, 29-09-2011 a las 20:21 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg escribió: > 2011/9/29 H.S.Rai <hardeep....@gmail.com>: > > In OpenOffice, there was provision to insert symbols like: > > > > %aplha > > > > but I found this method is not working in LO > > Could it be that you spelled it wrong, like you did above? > > Or why not just entering the Unicode for it (α=U+03B1)? You didn't > mention your operating system and desktop environment, but Gnome users > type Ctrl+Shift+u 03b1 Enter. > You could also add it to your auto-correction table, but that is not > as convenient in some situations. > > There are other methods as well, but that's probably not what this was > all about… > > > Kind regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > > > May I know how we can type such symbols, not by using icon / mouse, > > rather by typing as such? > > > > -- > > H.S.Rai > > > > -- > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > -- Atentamente, Jorge Rodríguez -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted