2 simple ways to insert star symbol in Excel
In Excel, sometimes, you may want to insert the star symbol ★ in cells for marking as important. Here this article lists top 2 simple methods to insert star symbol in Excel cells.
Method A: Insert star symbol by using the Symbol menu
Method B: Batch insert star symbol to cells by using Kutools for Excel
In Excel, you can find and insert the star symbol in the Symbol menu.
1. Click at the cell that you want to insert the star symbol, click Insert > Symbol.
2. Then in the Symbol dialog, in the Font drop-down list, choose Wingdings 2, then drag the scroll bar to find the star symbol you need.
3. Click Insert, then the star symbol has been inserted into the cell. Then close the Symbol menu.
Tip: if you use the star symbol or other special symbol usually, you can insert the special symbol in cell by the Symbol menu firstly, then save the symbol to the AutoText pane of Kutools for Excel, then you can insert the symbol anywhere anytime by just clicks.
If you want to batch insert star symbol to cells as bullets, you can apply the Kutools for Excel’s Insert Bullet utility.
| Kutools for Excel, with more than 300 handy functions, makes your jobs more easier. | ||
After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:
Select the cells you want to insert the start symbols as bullets, then click Kutools > Insert > Insert Bullet to display the submenu, then choose the star.
Note: The Insert Bullet utility won’t add the star symbol into blank cells.
Quickly and automatically insert date and timestamp in Excel
In Excel, inserting date and timestamp is a normal operation. Here in this tutorial, I will introduce multiple methods on manually or automatically inserting date and timestamp in Excel cells by providing different cases.
7 easy ways to insert delta symbol in Excel
Sometimes, you may want to insert the delta symbol Δ while you are stating data in Excel. But how can you quickly insert the delta symbol in an Excel cell? In this tutorial, it provides 7 easy ways for inserting the delta symbol.
Quickly insert space between each row in Excel
In Excel，you can use the right click menu to select a row above active row, but do you know how to insert blank rows in each row as below screenshot shown? Here I introduce some tricks on solving this job quickly.
Insert tick mark or tick box in Excel cell
In this article, I introduce some different ways to insert trick marks or trick boxes in Excel worksheet.
The Best Office Productivity Tools
Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80%
- Super Formula Bar (easily edit multiple lines of text and formula); Reading Layout (easily read and edit large numbers of cells); Paste to Filtered Range...
- Merge Cells/Rows/Columns and Keeping Data; Split Cells Content; Combine Duplicate Rows and Sum/Average... Prevent Duplicate Cells; Compare Ranges...
- Select Duplicate or Unique Rows; Select Blank Rows (all cells are empty); Super Find and Fuzzy Find in Many Workbooks; Random Select...
- Exact Copy Multiple Cells without changing formula reference; Auto Create References to Multiple Sheets; Insert Bullets, Check Boxes and more...
- Favorite and Quickly Insert Formulas, Ranges, Charts and Pictures; Encrypt Cells with password; Create Mailing List and send emails...
- Extract Text, Add Text, Remove by Position, Remove Space; Create and Print Paging Subtotals; Convert Between Cells Content and Comments...
- Super Filter (save and apply filter schemes to other sheets); Advanced Sort by month/week/day, frequency and more; Special Filter by bold, italic...
- Combine Workbooks and WorkSheets; Merge Tables based on key columns; Split Data into Multiple Sheets; Batch Convert xls, xlsx and PDF...
- Pivot Table Grouping by week number, day of week and more... Show Unlocked, Locked Cells by different colors; Highlight Cells That Have Formula/Name...
- Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
- Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
- Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!
