Combining a letterform with a path outline

In this movie, I'll show you how to combine a letter…form with a predefined symbol to create a custom character of type.…Now notice that I still have my Path Outlines layer set to the…Outline mode, and my other two layers are set to the Preview mode.…And if you were to open this illustration, you'd see the exactly the same thing.…Because Illustrator goes ahead and saves…the preview settings along with the document.…Now, in our case, what we want to do is keep the interior of the O and…merge it with the outside of this grime symbol.…So that means we need to get rid of the outside of the O.…

And I am going to do that by zooming in, just so I have a closer…view, and then I will press the A key to switch to my White Arrow tool.…And I'll click on this anchor point right there, and…Shift click on this one here in order to select a…representative anchor point along the top of both the left…side of the O and the right side of the O.…And then I'll press the Backspace key, or the Delete key…on a Mac in order to get rid of those points.…