Insert a Symbol

The Rich Text Editor allows you to insert symbols that are not on your keyboard, such as copyright symbols, trademark symbols, paragraph marks.

To insert a symbol, do the following:

1. Point to the position within the document where you want to insert a symbol.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Symbol group, click the Symbol button.

   

   The Symbol dialog will be invoked.

   

3. Select the symbol to be inserted and click OK, or double-click the symbol.

In addition, some symbols can be inserted in the document using default keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Description
CTRL+ALT+C	Inserts the copyright (©) symbol.
CTRL+ALT+OEMPERIOD	Inserts the ellipsis (…) symbol.
CTRL+ALT+R	Inserts the registered trademark (®) symbol.
CTRL+ALT+-	Inserts the em dash (—) symbol.
CTRL+ALT+T	Inserts the trademark sign (™) symbol.
CTRL+-	Inserts the en dash (-) symbol.