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| With the insertion point positioned at the end of the hexadecimal number, press Alt X | The code is converted to the character. (This works as a toggle: press Alt X again and the code reappears.) |
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macOS provides a system-wide Unicode Hex Input mechanism, which therefore works not just in MS Word but in any application that accepts text.
| Go to System Preferences… and click Keyboard to select your keyboard options |
| In the Keyboard options, under the Keyboard tab, checkmark ‘Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar’ |
| Under the Input Sources tab, |
| The dropdown menu allows you to activate a new |
| In your menu bar, near the right, you now see that you have two active keyboard layouts: one is your primary keyboard layout (in this case ‘ABC’, a Latin-script keyboard associated with the English language), and the other is Unicode Hex Input, which you can now select and use |
