Looking for Square Root Sign

I'm trying to find a square root sign to use in a Power Point
presentation. I can't seem to find one in the character map. I'm using
Windows XP. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

SQUARE ROOT (U+221A) Font Support
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221a/fontsupport.htm

 

It's there. it just looks like more of a check mark

 

Try selecting Symbol or Terminal for the font.

 

If you have MS Word you should get it in the equation editor, its, not
installed by default, you may have to add it.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051902471033.aspx

 

Thanks I found it under Terminal for a font. But when I select then
copy it, and try to paste it into a document, I get this

û

A different symbol altogether. I don't know what the problem is.

Also, how do I use this (U+221A) function? How do I type that in? I'm
not familiar with that. I read it as a combination of keystrokes, but
as soon as I type U, a U shows up in the document. Please excuse my
stupidity here. It's just new to me. Thanks again for the help.

 

Terminal font is no good. Choose Symbol font.

Hold the ALT key and press (on the keypad) 0214 .

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If you copy from another application (or any window not "rich text
enabled") you copy the character code only. Different character sets
have different encoding schemes, so pasting the character code into Word
may well give a different character.

If you want to show the character as such, insert it using the menu
selection "Insert - symbol", select category "Math operators" and you'll
probably see it. (It looks like a checkmark, as previously stated. The
"overline" will be a format property of the element within the root
symbol. Any but the simplest formulas will be hard to write this way.)

If you want to write a formula with a square root (more likely, I
guess), use the equation editor like Kenny said. His link shows you both
how to install it (if it's not there), invoke it, and get you started
(using is mostly self explanatory).

 

I have the left part (checkmark looking thing) in Charmap about a
third of the way from the bottom in the font Lucida Sans Unicode.

They also have the version with the numbers for cube root and fourth
root.

AFAIK, Lucida Sans Unicode is installed with XP and 2000 and probably
other versions of Windows. Win 95/98/ME does not have support for the
Unicode system so you might need something else.

(Unicode is a two-byte character system [0-65535] so it includes
things like the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets, et alia)

 

Start

Run

CHARMAP

Select Arial as the font

Row 49, column 17

Select

Copy

Switch to PowerPoint and Edit, Paste

 

the 211A - is a hex number in order to make the new char you could open calculator write the hex code in hex than convert to dec and you will have a new code 8730 this code you will use with the alt key ALT+8730
... this code can be diffrent for diffrent fonts ... bbye !:weed: