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Use complex characters and symbols

In Pages documents, how can I use characters not in the Character Viewer, such as the maths symbol for average, which is an x with a bar on top?

by MOIRA LEWIS

A There are two ways to create compound characters, depending on how you deliver them: in text or set in a laid-out format such as a PDF. Unicode, used in all text on Macs and Apple devices, handles these using Combining Diacritic Marks, including accents and

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