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Insert symbols and special characters

Insert symbols and special characters - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Insert symbols and special characters

- [Instructor] In Microsoft Word here are several special symbols and characters available to us that are not on our keyboard. After watching this video you'll now how to insert symbols and special characters into your documents. I'll show you in Auto Correct where there are some symbols and special characters available to you and also how to create a shortcut to a symbol or special character. Let's just right into our Symbols and Characters document. And I have my cursor right in the Ordered column for textbooks. I'm going to insert a checkmark here. On my Insert tab, on the far right hand side I'll click on Symbols. We have two options, Equations and Symbols. In the symbols window, you see the frequently used symbols for this computer. You may have something in there or it might be blank at this point. I'll click on More Symbols. In the Symbol window we have a symbols tab, and a Special Characters tab that we'll focus on in just a moment. For symbols, we can select the font that…

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