Greek Letter in MATHCAD 15 Table??

Question

Ctl g does not work.  It teverts to regular text.  Is this possible in any table or matrix.  The text is in quotes in the table.

Werner_E · Accepted Answer

I was talking about the "Alt Gr" key ('Alternate Gray') to the right of the space key which is used to get the superscripted "3" which is a special character in the character set.

This works on my German keyboard and according to the information from the net also for US keyboards

"Alt Gr" can be replaced by Ctrl+Alt. So pressing the threes keys "Ctrl" Alt" and "3" at the same time and then releasing them should also create the character ³.

The key may read just "Alt" instead of "Alt Gr" and depending on the keyboard you are using it could be that you are not able to create the superscript 3 via the keyboard at all.

In case you cannot create that character from your keyboard, an easy alternative is to use the text "^3" instead even though it may not look that nice.

But there are other ways to create the superscript 3:

You may copy the ³ character from character map

or you may create it using Alt+0179, which means keeping the Alt key (to the left of the space key) pressed while you type 0179 on the numeric keypad and then release the Alt key.

Werner_E · Answer

I understand your question to mean that you want to use Greek letters in a string variable.

Unfortunately, the editing options in a string are indeed very limited. For example, you can't select individual characters to copy or delete them, and, as you noticed, the shortcut Ctrl+G doesn't work either.

You can still use Greek letters, however, by copying and pasting them into the string. You have at least three options:

1) Start the Windows program "Character Map" and copy the characters from there.

2) Create a math region (a variable name) in Mathcad using greek characters and copy from there

3) Create a text region in Mathcad using greek characters and copy from there

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