Symbols

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello in this lesson, I wanna teach you about symbols like copyright symbols,
• 00:08 trademark symbols, or currency symbols.
• 00:11 So no this first line of the exercise file, I'm asking you let's put
• 00:15 the copyright symbol right here, on the right hand side of this figure.
• 00:22 If you click on your insert ribbon,
• 00:24 way over on the right hand side is an option that says symbol.
• 00:27 Notice, folks, right above it, is equations, in case you're a math person,
• 00:30 you need equations.
• 00:32 But right here we're going to work on symbols.
• 00:34 When I hit the drop down arrow, it gives me the most currently used one, and
• 00:38 right there, of course, is the C for copyright, just that easy.
• 00:42 All right now the next one,
• 00:43 the next line is, let's do the trademark symbol for Coca-Cola.
• 00:47 So I'll click right behind Coca-Cola, go back up to the symbols, and yes,
• 00:51 the trademark is right here.
• 00:54 But I want to take you a step further and take you into more symbols.
• 00:57 When you click on the more symbols button right here you can see I've got two tabs.
• 01:02 One on the front says symbols, one in the back says special characters.
• 01:06 When you activate special characters,
• 01:08 these are the ones that are most commonly sought out for.
• 01:11 So I have the copyright symbol.
• 01:13 The registered, the trademark, sections, paragraphs and other symbols as well.
• 01:18 You can scroll up and down to see these.
• 01:20 But it's your choice.
• 01:22 I can just go ahead and click trademark right there and
• 01:24 notice on the right, it says Alt+ Ctrl+ t.
• 01:28 So it's teaching you the shortcut to
• 01:31 put the trademark symbol in there in case you use it often.
• 01:34 Right, so I'll go in and click Insert.
• 01:37 And it should show up, let me close this, there it is, the TM.
• 01:40 I'll hit space bar a couple times, and
• 01:43 I'm just gonna hit Alt+Ctrl+T, and sure enough it pops in right there.
• 01:49 A little different font, of course, but that's just fine.
• 01:52 All right, let's add the Japanese yen on the third line.
• 01:54 So again, I click on symbols and
• 01:57 it happens to be right here so I can click and activate it.
• 02:01 Or, yes, I could go a little step further to more symbols and
• 02:05 I could just search through this set of symbols right here on normal text and
• 02:10 hopefully find it on this list.
• 02:12 Or, I can go to any other font style, and
• 02:16 see if it would be on one of these lists as well.
• 02:19 So you can click through all kinds of font styles to find what ever symbol you want,
• 02:25 I happen to know if I typed wingdings here.
• 02:28 Wingdings, all kinds of symbols, look at them all here.
• 02:31 You could even put a smiley face if you want.
• 02:33 So just so you know, that you have access to all these fonts
• 02:38 with all these symbols in there definitely well worth knowing, well worth using.
• 02:43 It's up to you to explore those areas.
• 02:45 If you're ever trying to tell someone which symbol to use and and
• 02:50 they're over the phone or something and they don't know which one
• 02:54 you're talking about, every symbol has a corresponding character code, all right?
• 02:58 So I could tell them, well, go to Wingdings and type character 56 and
• 03:03 they would get the cute little mouse on their screen.
• 03:06 So there's all kinds of ways to identify which one you want to use.
• 03:11 You just have to know how to read these boxes, all right?
• 03:15 So there you go.
• 03:16 Thank you so much, and please use symbols.

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