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.

    RTEINsertSymbol

    The Symbol dialog will be invoked.

    RTEInsertSymbolMenu

  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.