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How do you enter a special character in a Microsoft Word document?

Asked by 2davidc8 (10189

) February 5th, 2015
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Let’s say that Character Map (the Windows utility that displays all possible characters in a given font) indicates that a certain character is represented by U+25CA. (This happens to be a small diamond.) How do I enter this into a Word document?

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I’m not sure about Windows but what I generally do is google the unicode character code and then copy and paste.

johnpowell (17881

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@johnpowell Ah, yes, but is there a faster way? Like, a series of keystrokes involving Ctrl-Alt-Shift plus something?

2davidc8 (10189

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This might help. ⊯

http://superuser.com/questions/47420/insert-unicode-characters-via-the-keyboard

johnpowell (17881

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You can Select > Copy from the Character Map and paste directly on an MS Word document.

I just did that with the symbol representing Sajdah: ۩

Brian1946 (32274

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You can also do Insert (a tab in Word) -> Symbol, which allows you to navigate a list of symbols.

PhiNotPi (12681

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On MS Office applications you can program the dictionary to replace (“fix the spelling”) of any set of keystrokes that you want into any character or set of characters that the program can display.

I myself prefer AutoHotKey (free from autohotkey.com), but that’s a personal preference.

CWOTUS (26102

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Alt characters if it’s on the list.

ibstubro (18804

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☞The easiest way I know about is cut(✂) and paste(✎), like I did with these characters.☜
here’s the site I used to get these characters. There are also other sites where you can do some neat things, like the ”☪☯€✡ї☯†” symbol.

Strauss (23624

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Wow, I didn’t know that there are so many ways to do this! Thanks, everybody. I’ll try ‘em all!

2davidc8 (10189

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I could not get @Yetanotheruser‘s method to work. Try again later.

ibstubro (18804

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Alt 248 is °
Alt 155 is ¢

I don’t use many of them. ♥
(Alt 3)

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