Where to find symbols in word 2010

En Dash Trademark No-Width Non Break 3. Nonbreaking Hyphen Section Break Left-to-Right Mark 4. Optional Hyphen Paragraph Break Right-to-Left Mark 5.

Em Space Ellipsis Left-to-Right Embedding 6. En Space Single Opening Quote You will find two options under the symbol button a Equation and b Symbols. Click either of these two options based on your requirement. You will further use equations while preparing mathematical or scientific or any similar document. For now, we are going to understand the use of the Symbol button as shown below. If you do not find the desired symbol in this small box, then you can click at the More Symbols option to have a wide range of symbols as shown below in the symbol dialog box.

You can select any of the symbol and then click the Insert button to insert the selected symbol. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to type any of the available symbol. If you plan to type in other languages often you should consider switching your keyboard layout to that language. You can find more information about that at Enable or change a keyboard layout language. For one-off characters there are almost always keyboard shortcuts in Office to do that.

For example:. For more info on international characters see: Keyboard shortcuts for international characters. You can also use the character code of the symbol as a keyboard shortcut. You can tell which is which when you look up the code for the character.

Scroll up or down the list to find the symbol you want. You might have to change the font or the subset to locate it. Towards the bottom right you'll see boxes for Character code and a from:. The character code is what you'll enter to insert this symbol from the keyboard and the from: tells you what kind of character it is.

If from: says "Unicode hex " it's a Unicode character. For info on inserting a check mark, see Insert a check mark. Click or tap where you want to insert the special character. Go to Special Characters. Double-click the character that you want to insert. Click or tapwhere you want to insert the fraction. In the Subset dropdown, choose Number Forms.

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