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For some editing purposes, you may have a need to use a "slashed zero" in your documents. You know—these are the zeros that have a slash through them. They are often used in technical documents to differentiate the zero from the capital letter O.
If you have a need to use this character, you have two choices. First, you can find a font that actually uses the slashed zero in it. If you use this character a lot, this is probably the best long-term solution. If you only need to use the character periodically, however, you can follow these steps:
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2021-02-03 08:05:43
JULES LEBLANC
THIS DOES NOT WORK DO NOT USE
2021-01-29 14:48:55
Doesnt work. Tried it about 8 times.
2020-12-22 09:04:19
Allen
Michael,
See the gray box at the top of this page. If you are using Office 365, you should "click through" to the other site which contains tips for your version. This site is for users of MUCH older versions of Word.
-Allen
2020-12-20 16:40:09
I use Office 365. Are tips stil the same as for Word 2013, for example?
2020-03-10 18:39:19
Jim
Some laptop keyboards make the f-keys available by pressing an "fn" key simultaneously. Before your instructions will work for the slashed zero character, it is necessary to remap the f-keys in the BIOS so that pressing the "fn" key isn't required.
2019-02-04 07:35:10
Cell phones and computers keyboards need to have the zero with / through it. When you are given a password or a code on line, you can't tell whether it's a zero or the letter O.
2018-03-30 02:23:32
krishnan
not a good method i was wasting my time more than one hour give some good method in details the people can understand
2017-09-06 15:33:55
Dave Williams
When I use the steps above, it creates a space when it falls after a period (between the period and the slashed 0). Is there anyway to get rid of the space?
Thanks,
Dave
2017-04-19 05:05:51
GeordieLad
Re Patricia's comment: With respect I think there's a typo; should be Alt 0216 (see Stan's comment of 2015-10-23 12:51:27). Alternatively, the same character is available from Insert > Symbols > Special Characters, about 6 lines down in most fonts.
Purists may not like this particular result because it appears as a slashed capital O rather than a slashed zero. But the only alternative would be to use the double strike technique detailed by Allen which is somewhat more involved and does, as
Suzanne S. Barnhill (2012-08-04 08:01:17) points out, insert a trailing space.
2017-04-18 17:24:19
Cliff Tanner
When I follow these instructions, I get Error!
2017-02-17 15:37:36
Patricia
Doesn't it appear that it would just be easier to type "alt 0126" to insert a zero with a slash in it? Type this without the quotes.
2016-11-21 21:05:41
Phil Epstein
The above procedure produces the slash zero ok but forces a gap between it and the next character. P.
2016-05-07 00:43:24
Chairboy48
I couldn't get this to work with o, but it did with O (capital o)
2015-10-23 12:51:27
Stan
Simply use 'Alt + 0216'
2014-10-08 14:26:53
Stephen McBride
I noticed that you cannot always use a comma. It depends on your setting. I had to use a ";" instead of a "," between the 0 and the /.
Can you put a slash through other characters? Where did you find the o? Is this referenced somewhere?
2013-11-07 05:06:20
Mauricio
Use CONSOLAS font.
2013-10-19 10:23:51
Elisa Howard
I got the slash0 to work in Word 2010, but it will not copy into Excel 2010 as part of an e-mail address. Will the formula work for Excel 2010?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Elisa Howard
2013-02-23 21:45:29
Aliyadk
Thank you! This is very helpful
2012-10-10 12:43:35
Niki
0/ Ø appear different.
Once one has created this one can highlight it and insert it in autocorrect and assign a code to automatically create 0/ by typing eg sl0 (for sl-ash 0).
2012-08-04 11:46:24
"If you can find it, you can make it."
Since the hint didn't work on my Word 2010, I did what I recommend to anyone:
1. Find a slashed zero, copy it and paste it to Word.
2. Save it as an AutoCorrect with an easy substitute such as "/0" or perhaps "/0=" (slash zero equals).
3. Done. Any time you type /0, up pops your shashed zero.
AutoCorrect (AC)does almost everything usually achieved through far more complex operations, including insertion of images, standard headings and footnotes, etc. Even a slow typist can produce documents with common contents lightning fast with a large collection of ACs.
2012-08-04 09:37:09
Fred Burg
Of course, if you use this character position often, you can make it into an AutoCorrect or AutoText entry.
2012-08-04 08:01:17
Suzanne S. Barnhill
As noted at http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/CombineCharacters.htm, it is a peculiarity of the EQ field that it adds a space to the end of the result. This can be corrected by deleting the automatic space at the end of the field (before the closing field brace).
2012-08-04 06:10:54
Good day Alan, and thank you for all the tips etc. that you put in your newletter.
Re '0' with a '/' - I have tried to create the combined symbol, without success. I am use Word 2003.
Suggestions please?
Thank you
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