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Inserting special characters - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2022 Essential Training
Inserting special characters
- Quick, tell me what the keyboard's shortcut is to type the registered trademark symbol, or how about an en or an em dash? If you don't use these characters very often, then there's no reason to clutter your head with trying to remember the shortcuts because InDesign has a couple of features that make inserting special characters a breeze. I'm going to zoom in on this magazine article on the left by selecting the type tool, clicking inside this paragraph, and then pressing command or control one. Let's add a special character after the name of this company. To find it, I'm going to go to the type menu and scroll all the way to the bottom until I find insert special characters. Then I'll look inside the symbols sub menu, and you can find all kinds of things in here like a bullet character, copyright symbol, ellipsis. Here's the one I'm looking for: registered trademark symbol. As soon as I select it, InDesign types the…
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