When you insert a symbol from the symbol set in MS Word, you are basically inserting a drawn object into your text. The process involves multiple keystrokes/mouse clicks. Translation into HTML can sometimes alter your intended symbol. When you use a Greek character set, you are setting the symbols into your document as text. This allows the symbols, during translation into HTML, to be designated by HTML as "Greek Font", and therefore will appear stable across browsers. Furthermore, since the symbols are now characters, you can easily superscript and subscript them.

1. Under Start select Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Software.
2. Select the Windows Setup tab, and scroll down to Multilanguage Support.
3. Follow instructions to install alternate character sets on your computer (ie Greek, Cyrillic, etc)
4. Make certain you are aware of the hotkey combination that changes your character set. The current character set will be designated in the lower right portion of your monitor by a two letter abreviation--ie, EN for english.
5. In the Greek character set map out the key designation on your keyboard, in order to know which key produces which letter.

1. To enter a Greek symbol, first switch over to the Greek character set and type in the symbol. Then switch back to the Engliish Character set.
2. When saving, first save as regular Word document. If you want to convert the document to HTML, it must first be saved in its entirety as a common Word document.
3. When converting to HTML, take the saved Word document and under File select Save as HTML… You will see a warning that the document may lose its formatting unless saved as a UTF-8 character set (multilingual), but don't worry about that.

1. Create a new page in Front Page. Under File, select Page Properties. Select the Language tab and set the HTML encoding for both Save and Load to Multilingual (UTF-8).
2. You can now insert your Word file containing the Greek characters.