Pete, Thank you for your response, but before I could try your method someone
suggested that I include the symbol in a blank workbook and set my macro to
access that workbook, select the cell containing the symbol, copy and paste
special into my destination workbook. This worked.
Thanks again.
slovak

"Pete_UK" wrote:

Using the Character Map (in System Tools), the Sigma character is
available as U+03A3 on the numeric keypad. This might be an alternative
way of getting the character into your sheet - it looks like * S * on
these newsgroups - you might want to embolden it and increase the font
size.

Hope this helps.

Pete