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Step 1 - Inserting Symbols

 
 

Selecting (Insert > Symbol) will give you the complete character set for every font installed font on your PC.

 
 

It is important to remember that each font has a different set of special characters.

 
 

Symbols tab

 
   
 

Font - Select the font you want to use to display your character or symbol

 
 

Subset - Allows you to jump to specific areas in the character set.

 
 

Character Code - Displays the code of the currently selected character. You can choose from displaying the code in either Unicode hex, ASCII decimal or ASCII hex.

 


 

Step 2 - Special Characters

 
 

Special Characters tab

 
 

This gives you access a number of commonly used special characters such as the trademark and copyright symbols.

 
 

These characters will be left aligned by default.

 
   

 

Not all the fonts support the Euro. Fonts that do support the Euro are Courier, Tahoma, Times and Arial.

 
 

List the common subsets

 


 

Step 4 - Things to Remember

 
 
  • You can enter the Euro symbol by pressing Alt + 0128 (on the numerical keypad)

     

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