How to Make ‘Greater, Less and Equal To’ Signs in Excel?

The use of the special signs, mathematics and punctuation are very necessary when making a document, a presentation or a spreadsheet. It is possible that we have problems with some of them, because we do not know how to locate them on the keyboard. How we understand this problem, in this article we will tell you how to do the ‘greater than, less than and equal to’ signs in Excel.

In how many possible ways can these signs be made on a PC?

From your PC, you can enter in the cited documents and even when you write an email, any of these signs. And you can do it in two very simple ways, from the toolbar or directly from the keyboard. If you do not know how to proceed, we immediately indicate the steps to insert the greater than, less than, and equal to sign.

How to make the ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ signs on the keyboard?

The simplest way to enter greater than, less than, and equal to signs or any other type, it is through the keyboard.And it won’t matter if you’re working with a PC running Windows OS or a Mac running iOS.

In any of these cases there is a code that will allow you to enter these mathematical signs and they are the following. For Mac computers You must press the following code:

• For less than or equal to sign ‘⌥ + <' without quotes.
• For the greater than or equal to sign ‘⌥ + >’ without quotes.

For Windows computers, we’ll tell you how to press the following code which is shown below.

• For less than or equal to sign ‘Alt +243’ without quotes.
• For the greater than or equal to sign ‘Alt + 242’ without quotes.

Where can these signs be found on the Toolbar?

But entering the signs of greater than, less than or equal to, you can also do from the toolbar of the Microsoft Excel program.

To do this, we will go to the upper left corner of the screen and select the ‘Insert’ tab. Now go to the right corner of the top menu and click the ‘Symbol’ option. If the sign does not appear, click on the ‘More symbols’ option.

And this action will generate a larger box on the screen and in it, you must search and select the sign you need. To insert it into your spreadsheet, you need to click on the ‘Insert’ option. And that’s how easy the sign of ‘ will appeargreater than, less than, or equal to’ in the selected cell.

Is it possible to use these methods to add signs in other programs?

The methods that we teach you are used to insert signs in Excel and if you want to use it for other programs, you can only use the keyboard. Since the use of Excel tools, they will work only for that program and not for another. In the case of programs like Word, you can use its own toolbar and insert signs from there.

Use the codes or shortcuts to insert signs or any other special characters. You can do it from the keyboard and it will work perfectly for any program no matter what it is. In addition, you can activate the virtual or touch keyboard in Windows or Mac and it will appear on the screen, allowing you to insert signs more easily.

What other signs can be used in excel for formulas?

Mathematical signs in Excel spreadsheets are of great importance and knowing how to insert them is very useful. AND greater than, less than, or equal to signs, they are not the only ones that you can use, since there is a great variety of them. Among the signs for formulas that you can use in Excel are the following.

Mathematical symbols that can be found in excel

A large number of everyday mathematical symbols, such as the square root symbol, can be inserted more quickly from the keyboard. although you can insert them also from the toolbar and specifically going to the Insert tab, then ‘Symbol’ and then ‘Equation’.

And on the left side of the menu, a box will be displayed with the equal signs (=) add (+) multiply (X) among others. Like less than (<) greater than (>) and so on different mathematical symbols.

Statistics symbols available in Excel

Another type of very useful symbols and that you should know how to insert it into Excel spreadsheets, are the statistics. Which you can find directly in the insert tab in the ‘Symbol’ option. There you will have a wide variety of them and they will allow you to represent different parameters such as interaction ‘∩’ population correlation ‘ρ’ among others.

In this way we have culminated this article, in which we were able to indicate how make the sign of greater than, less than or equal to in Excel. You also learned how to insert other commonly used symbols in spreadsheets. And in a way as simple as adding cubic meters in Excel.