Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Inserting Symbols and Special Characters

Often, you'll want to use characters other than those shown on a standard keyboard. In some cases, you'll need foreign language characters such as é or ñ. In other cases, you may need special characters, such as the section character §, which is often used in legal documents. In still other cases, you may want to use special-purpose symbols, such as the No Smoking icon available on Microsoft's free Webdings font. Finally, you may want to use symbols as decoration to spruce up newsletters and other documents. In the next few sections, you'll learn how to access symbols like these and use them most effectively.

Working with Symbols

In Chapter 20, you learned how you can use WordArt to transform ordinary text ...