Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Working with Special Characters

Traditionally, typographers have improved the look of documents by turning to some characters that do not appear on typewriter keyboards, such as copyright and registered trademark symbols, em dashes (—), and en dashes (–). By default, Word's AutoFormat As You Type feature adds many of these characters automatically.

→ For more information about AutoFormat As You Type, see Chapter 8, "Automating Your Documents: AutoCorrect, AutoFormat, AutoText, and AutoSummarize".

Sometimes, however, you may need to add characters such as these directly. To do so, choose Insert, Symbol, click the Special Characters tab (see Figure 22.13), then double-click the symbol you require.

Figure 22.13. Entering a special character through ...