Symbols

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, this lesson is about symbols.
• 00:07 Symbols are a text but they are more like text characters and
• 00:12 periodically you do want a certain symbol in your document but
• 00:17 it's hard to create one with the keyboard.
• 00:20 So, here's how to find the right symbol for you.
• 00:23 On this first line, we wanna add the copyright symbol at the end of the text,
• 00:27 All Rights Reserved, 2016-2020.
• 00:30 Let's go ahead and place our insertion point right at the end, and go ahead and
• 00:34 tap your spacebar, put one little space in there, on the insert menu, or
• 00:38 the insert ribbon, way over on the right hand side is this symbol group.
• 00:44 So right in here up come a bunch of symbols.
• 00:47 Now your symbols might look a little different than mine, depending on the last
• 00:50 ones you've used, but generally the most common symbols are right up there.
• 00:54 And here happens to be the copyright symbol.
• 00:57 So I'll go ahead and click on that, and you'll see a little copyright show up.
• 01:01 Excellent.
• 01:02 Now, we'll add the trademark symbol, on the line that says Coca-cola.
• 01:07 Again, insert ribbon, way far on the right hand side, simple.
• 01:11 And here is the trademark symbol.
• 01:13 But I want to show you a little deeper.
• 01:15 If you'll take a look at the bottom of that list, it says more symbols.
• 01:18 When you click on that, up come a bunch of symbols, and there's a scroll bar here.
• 01:24 You can just scroll through and look at them all.
• 01:27 It's quite interesting to see all the different symbols.
• 01:30 But notice there's two tabs back in the background, a symbols tab and
• 01:33 a special characters tab.
• 01:35 When you click the special characters tab, here are a bunch of symbols
• 01:39 that are kind of the standard symbols you would generally look for.
• 01:42 And there's a trademark symbol as well.
• 01:45 Now notice, I could just go ahead and click Trademark and hit insert.
• 01:50 Or it's also teaching me the shortcut key to apply that symbol.
• 01:54 So if there is a particular symbol you use on a regular basis.
• 01:58 You might want to begin to memorize the short cut keys.
• 02:01 In this case it would be Alt+CntrlT.
• 02:03 I'll go ahead and hit insert, and I'll close this box and there is the TM.
• 02:10 I'm gonna hit my space bar a couple times just to practice the Alt+CntrlT
• 02:14 to see what happens.
• 02:16 Hold down on your keyboard Alt Ctrl T, let go, and
• 02:19 sure enough the trademark symbol comes in again.
• 02:22 Let's go one step further.
• 02:25 I'm gonna look for the Japanese Yen, so
• 02:27 I'm gonna click on this third line come up again, Insert RIbbon, Symbol.
• 02:32 Now the Japanese Yen is right here.
• 02:34 I'm gonna take you just a step further again.
• 02:37 Here we go.
• 02:38 It defaults to this symbol right here.
• 02:40 The Symbols tab, Special Characters in the background, Symbols up front.
• 02:44 Here's a bunch of particular symbols like the pound sign, here's a Yen sign.
• 02:49 But don't just focus your eyes up here,
• 02:51 I want you to look corner to corner on this entire square.
• 02:54 Okay that's how you become a better computer user,
• 02:57 become aware of the entire dialogue box.
• 02:59 First of all, I am clicked on the Japanese Yen, right down here it's telling me
• 03:03 the name, Yen Sign, it's telling me the character code, 0085,
• 03:08 so if you're trying to describe to someone else which symbol you're clicked on you
• 03:13 can just give them the character code.
• 03:16 And it's also giving me the shortcut key right here, Alt+0165, again if
• 03:22 I'm going to use this more often I would memorize that or I'd make a note of it.
• 03:26 But right now I'm just gonna go ahead and hit insert.
• 03:30 And close, and there you have the Japanese Yen.
• 03:34 All right, that's it for symbols.
• 03:35 They're very useful.
• 03:36 You can find all kinds of symbols and all kinds of uses for them.

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