Problems pasting titles with Greek or match characters from Word or Excel to a Prism table.

Windows

If you try to copy text from Word or Excel, and paste as row titles or column titles in Prism, the special characters (Greek, Math) might revert to plain text. For example the Greek mu becomes a regular m. 

It is easy to work around this problem. It only happens when you have an insertion point in the Prism table so you are pasting new text. Instead, select some text in the prism data table and then paste to replace the selected text.  

Also, Prism handles the situation ok if you entered the Greek into Excel using the Symbol font. If you use some other font that includes Greek letters, Prism might get confused.

Mac

If you copy text from Word, and paste as row titles or column titles in Prism, the special characters (Greek, Math) might turn into Wingding characters. For example the Greek mu becomes a circle with a shadow. It is easy to work around this problem. It only happens when you have an insertion point in the Prism table so you are pasting new text or replacing the selected text. Instead, select two or more row (or column) titles in the Prism data table and then paste to replace the text in the first one.  

If you copy text from Excel, and paste as row titles or column titles in Prism, the special characters (Greek, Math) might revert to plain text. For example the Greek mu becomes a regular m. It is easy to work around this problem. It only happens when you have a piece of text selected inside a cell in Excel so you are copying the selected text rather than the entire cell. Instead, select the whole cell (by pressing Esc) in Excel, then copy and paste into Prism.