1 April 2023

Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Peter Deegan Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 2021 / Office LTSC, Office 365 Windows and Mac

How to insert the Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ fraction or symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.

Zero Thirds ↉ symbol (officially called ‘Vulgar Fraction Zero Thirds’) is a rarely used Baseball scoring symbol. The best explanation we could find was a Japanese Wikipedia page, here’s a translation.

There’s also a Wikipedia discussion

How Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ looks in different fonts.

We could only find ↉ in two regular Windows/Office fonts; Tahoma and Times New Roman.

It’s not in the fonts we’d usually expect unusual characters to live, such as Arial Unicode MS and Segoe UI Symbol.

Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ codes

These are the important code numbers or values you’ll need to enter the Zero Thirds (Baseball) or ↉

Decimal: 8585 Hex: 2189

Web: ↉ or ↉

(web codes aren’t used in Microsoft Office, we’ve included them for the sake of completeness.)

Word and Outlook

The Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ sign does NOT have an inbuilt shortcut in Word.

Use the standard Word Alt + X symbol shortcut 2189 then Alt + X

Once in a document you can copy it to AutoCorrect and make your own shortcut.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Insert | Symbols | Symbol and look for the Zero Thirds (Baseball) symbol, most easily using Unicode Hex 2189

Windows

In Windows there are several shortcuts to enter the Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ character into any program, but they use a numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.

Alt + 8585

Windows Character Map

The Windows Character Map accessory in all Windows releases

Character Map has a search feature, something missing from the Insert | Symbol in Office.

MacOS and Office for Mac inserting characters

On a Mac, to enter the Zero Thirds (Baseball) ↉ symbol:

Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer.
Search for “ Thirds “ and the Viewer should find the symbol you need among a small set of results.

Despite the name Character Viewer, the Apple system tool will also insert characters into any program, including Office for Mac.

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