How to use special characters symbols in Office Word

If you work with Office Word from Microsoft, then it can happen that you also want to use special characters. But where do you find the symbols? How do you set one? In this guide we will show you how to do it:

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1 Where can I find the special characters?

2 How to find the special characters on the smartphone or tablet

3 Find and insert special characters in Windows 10

Where can I find the special characters?

But showing is always needed. Regardless of whether it is and a † character or ∀ character .
To insert the special characters in Word, do the following:

1. Start Office Word if you haven't already.
2. Click Paste at the top .
3. In the tab that opens, click on the "Symbols"
button 4. An overview with the standardized symbols opens.

How to use special characters symbols in Office Word


When you find a character you need, click on it. It is immediately added to Word .
Repeat with all the characters you want.

Here are some shortcuts for symbols

How to use special characters symbols in Office Word


 

How to find the special characters on your smartphone or tablet

Do you use Word on your smartphone? It is also possible to insert special characters here.

Here, too, start Word, e.g. B. Create a blank document. If you press below the Shift key, you get all sorts of symbols.

Only the most important are listed here. It's less than Office Word on the computer.

Find and insert special characters in Windows 10

Windows 10 has a lot of special characters. They pretend to find them and use them.

For Windows 10, type Character Map in the search bar at the bottom left and click the  Character Map result

How to use special characters symbols in Office Word

Find the  special character you want

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