How To: Special Characters or Symbols in Office documents

Are you feeling special today and you find the need to append special symbols or characters to your documents! Oh well I am kidding. You might find a need to append special characters or Symbols that is not found in the normal font set and definitely not in the keyboard. Here is how you can add them.

 

 

 

For Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010:

1. Click Insert

2. Click Symbol from the Ribbon bar

3. Select the character. If needed click More Symbols Select the Symbol

 

Alternate method is view the Character Map from the System Tools Menu.

1. Click Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> System Tools >> Character Map

2. Select your font and the Symbol/Character you need

3. Click Copy to copy to your clipboard and paste it into your document.

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