Doing this will create a placeholder in your doc. For example when you type alpha the Greek letter Alpha is inserted. Alt 0191 Shift.
With your Doc open click Insert at the top of the page and choose Special Characters As you can see there are many different things you can now add to your document by placing the cursor where you wish your symbol to go and then clicking the corresponding photo of the symbol in this new open window.
Begin speaking and Equatio will translate in the Math area on the right side. You can choose from Egyptian Hieroglyphs emoji Asian and Arabic scripts arrows mathematical and scientific symbols and more. You can draw it out with your mouse and Google will show you similar-looking symbols. For instance you can insert special characters such as currency symbols mathematical characters or geometric shapes into any document you create or upload into Google Docs.