Select the appropriate key combination on your keyboard. To see a hoard of symbols and characters, click the Symbol button and choose the More Symbols command. Choose a symbol from the menu to insert the special symbol directly into your text. Place your cursor where the special character should be inserted.Ģ. Click the Symbol button see some popular or recently used symbols. Please note that the shortcuts shown below for the Double Opening Quote and Double Closing Quote are different than those shown in Word’s Symbol dialog box (which may be typos because they don’t function as intended).ġ. Thirteen special characters can be inserted with preset keyboard shortcuts. Symbol dialog box header area Insert Special Characters Using Keyboard Shortcuts
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Pro Tip: If the Symbol dialog box blocks your view of your newly inserted special character, left-click your mouse arrow on the uppermost area of the dialog box to grab it and then move it to a different location on your screen. Select the Close button to close the Symbol dialog box. Select the Insert button to insert the special character. Select the special character that you need from the Character menu. Special Characters tab in the Symbol dialog boxĦ. Select the Special Characters tab in the Symbol dialog box. Select More Symbols in the drop-down menu. Place your cursor where the special character should be inserted in your text.Ģ. Insert Special Characters Using the Symbol Dialog BoxĪll twenty-seven special characters can be inserted using the Symbol dialog box.ġ. If you want to insert accent marks (the extra marks that appear above and below letters) instead of special characters, visit “ Three Ways to Insert Accent Marks in Microsoft Word.” Em Dashįor a description of each character, visit “ What Are Special Characters in Microsoft Word?” The table below lists all twenty-seven special characters. On the drop-down menu, click on the menu option Symbol. Word’s special characters include twelve text characters, such as the en dash, that don’t appear on traditional keyboards and fifteen formatting characters, such as the nonbreaking hyphen, that affect text layout. Creating the Section Symbol () in WordPerfect Documents Click on the menu option Insert. This tutorial shows three ways to insert special characters in Microsoft Word: