How to insert a greek symbol like "alfa" and "beta" in Pages 5.0
How do I insert a greek symbol like "alfa" or "beta" in Pages 5.0
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
The same way you would in any other OS X app... there are various keyboard shortcuts for common letters (e.g. Ω is 'alt-z'), but if you are not sure what they are there are two quite simple solutions.
Both require you go to "Keyboard Prefernces" in "System Preferences" on your computer and put a tick in the box "Show keyboard and character viewer in menu bar".
Once you have done this, you get an extra menu item that gives you access to two OS X utilities - "Character Viewer" and "Keyboard Viewer"
- Character viewer opens a window that allows you to look for specific characters, copy them and paste them into your document. It is very powerful, and probably overkill for what you want. But worth knowing about.
- Keyboard viewer is a floating window that shows you what OS X thinks each key will produce when you type it. It adjusts itself to match whatever language / keyboard you are using, and shows immediately the effect of pressing the adjuster keys. Here is the viewer showing what happens when you press the alt key...
HTH...