This symbol is used to represent degrees in many different fields, such as angle or temperatures. It is obtained by drawing a small circle as a superscript. The Unicode of the icon is U + 00B0.
on Mac:
Using keyboard shortcuts : OPTION + SHIFT + 8
on PC:
Press and hold the ALT key and type 0 1 7 6 on the numeric keypad of your keyboard. Make sure the NumLock is on and type 0176 with the leading zero. If there is no numeric keypad, press and hold the Fn before typing the 0176 numbers of degree symbol.
on iPhone & iPad:
Step 1: Click the 123 button on the screen keyboard to open the number keyboard.
Step 2: Hold down zero (i.e. 0), and move your finger to choose the degree symbol (i.e. °).
on LaTeX:
gensymb \usepackage{gensymb} \begin{document} The right angle is 90\si{\degree}. \end{document}
textcomp \usepackage{textcomp} \begin{document} The round angle is 360\si{\textdegree}. \end{document}
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Try Alt and 167.
That worked, thank you Marco.
Glad that this thread was able to assist you as well Joseph :)
Does this not work in Articulate 360?
Nevermind. I tried it again and it workded. Thanks so much!
Awesome! Thanks for chiming back in with an update Cindy. Glad this was able to work for you as well.
This symbol is used to represent degrees in many different fields, such as angle or temperatures. It is obtained by drawing a small circle as a superscript. The Unicode of the icon is U + 00B0.
on Mac:
Using keyboard shortcuts : OPTION + SHIFT + 8
on PC:
Press and hold the ALT key and type 0 1 7 6 on the numeric keypad of your keyboard. Make sure the NumLock is on and type 0176 with the leading zero. If there is no numeric keypad, press and hold the Fn before typing the 0176 numbers of degree symbol.
on iPhone & iPad:
Step 1: Click the 123 button on the screen keyboard to open the number keyboard.
Step 2: Hold down zero (i.e. 0), and move your finger to choose the degree symbol (i.e. °).
on LaTeX:
gensymb
\usepackage{gensymb}
\begin{document}
The right angle is 90\si{\degree}.
\end{document}
textcomp
\usepackage{textcomp}
\begin{document}
The round angle is 360\si{\textdegree}.
\end{document}
siunitx
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
Degree symbol: 45\si{\degree}.
\end{document}
circ
^{\circ}
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