Symbols

Quick reference

• 00:04 It is sometimes really important to be able to add symbols to your documents,
• 00:07 like copyright symbols, trademark symbols, maybe currency symbols.
• 00:10 So we're going to do that in this exercise.
• 00:14 First of all, click where you want the symbol to land.
• 00:16 We're going to put the copyright symbol at this very spot.
• 00:20 On the Insert ribbon, on the far, far, far right-hand side,
• 00:23 we have two options under Symbols.
• 00:25 We have mathematical equations, and we have symbols.
• 00:31 When I hit the drop down arrow, it shows you the most recently used symbols.
• 00:33 My list will look different than yours because these are the same options used
• 00:38 with the bullets exercise.
• 00:40 Underneath, we have more symbols.
• 00:42 When this opens up, there's two tabs.
• 00:44 We have a Symbols tab and Special Characters.
• 00:46 The Symbols tab will show me every particular symbol available in
• 00:51 any font style actually on this computer.
• 00:55 I just like Wingdings, Wingdings is the one I go to the most, but
• 00:58 take a look at the Special Characters in the background.
• 01:01 You can just click on through until you find the one you want, and
• 01:04 there's a copyright.
• 01:06 Now, this is just the standard set that we're always looking for.
• 01:09 So we've got the copyright and then the trademark.
• 01:12 We'll go to that one next, but before I hit Insert,
• 01:14 check out the right hand column.
• 01:16 It's teaching us.
• 01:17 So if you're coming here a lot, maybe this would be something to memorize,
• 01:21 the Alt+Control+C.
• 01:23 Maybe the trademark, Alt+Control+T.
• 01:25 It is your personal preference, but I just want you to know it's there.
• 01:29 So I'm going to quickly memorize Alt-Control-C, Alt-Control-T.
• 01:33 I'm going to to hit Insert on this one to choose it, and Close it.
• 01:37 Because I hit it twice, it showed up twice, that's okay.
• 01:41 Okay, now I'm going to hit my space bar and press Alt+Ctrl+C,
• 01:46 and there it showed up.
• 01:48 Now, while I was in there, I quickly memorized Alt+Ctrl+T.
• 01:53 Alt+Ctrl+T, and the trademark showed up.
• 01:56 It even showed up as superscript above the line of text, very nice.
• 02:00 Alright, let's put in the yen, the Japanese yen symbol, this is harder.
• 02:05 Now, I did my research ahead of time, I actually jumped out online and
• 02:09 asked what is the code to type in the yen sign in Microsoft Word,
• 02:13 it is Alt+0165, but there's a sequence.
• 02:16 We hold down the Alt, we type the 0165, we release the Alt.
• 02:20 Okay, it's a sequence.
• 02:21 So I hold down Alt, type 0165, release Alt, there it is.
• 02:28 What I'm going to do is I'm going to highlight that, just select that in, and
• 02:32 show you where it's at.
• 02:33 Even though I have a screen print of where it's at,
• 02:36 I want to show you in the symbols.
• 02:37 I'm going to click on Symbol.
• 02:39 I'm going to go to More Symbols.
• 02:41 Since that one was highlighted, it shows me exactly where it's held.
• 02:46 Under the normal text font, which by the way,
• 02:49 happens to be the tippy top of the list, normal text fonts.
• 02:52 And it's highlighted right there, but if it wasn't right there,
• 02:56 I could have just scrolled down until I found it.
• 02:59 And trust me, many times I have just eyeballed this and
• 03:03 scrolled through in search of the one I wanted.
• 03:07 And then go ahead and hit Insert and then Close, all right?
• 03:10 And it showed up there again.
• 03:12 So just in case you need to know how to find a certain currency symbol,
• 03:16 jump out online and just ask.
• 03:18 And then quickly add it to your symbols so that under More Symbols,
• 03:22 it'll show up on your Recently used list and it'll be just handy and at the ready.
• 03:28 Okay, have fun with that and please use that.
• 03:30 It's really important to mark your copyrights and your trademarks.

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