Snow Leopard Symbol font doesn't always work in MS Office

I have to share files between MS Office 2011 for Mac and MS Office 2010 for Windows. As a mathematician, I use the Symbol font on my Mac frequently, but when I open those files in Windows, different characters have been substituted for the characters I typed.  Can I change something I'm doing on the Mac side to have the characters display correctly on my PC, or do I need to approach the problem from the Windows side?  Why isn't the Symbol font universally compatible?  Is there another variation in the Symbol font family that would be more compatible?

William M. wrote:
As a mathematician, I use the Symbol font on my Mac frequently, but when I open those files in Windows, different characters have been substituted for the characters I typed. 
You may be using the legacy symbol character encoding, which is not a good idea any more, as most apps have moved to Unicode.  Instead of using the Symbol font, make your characters by going to the Character Viewer (Edit > Special Characters), view = Roman, Tab = By Category, Category = Math, Digits, Greek
PS Depending on what app you are working in, you might want to use an Equation Editor rather than just typing symbols directly:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2008/12/typing-equations-and-formulas.html

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