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Inserting special characters

Inserting special characters

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Inserting special characters

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Often, as you're writing or editing a story in InCopy, you'll need to add a special character, like an em dash or a Euro currency character, or a copyright symbol, but you don't know how to do this because it's not on the keyboard. Well, InCopy has a number of useful menus and panels that will help you with these kind of tasks. For example, I'm going to zoom into the story I've checked out, with Command+Plus or Ctrl+Plus, and take a look at what's happening here on either side of the Pinto. We have a dash, but it's not really a hyphen. If I click here and I type a hyphen, that's what a hyphen looks like. And that it's surrounded by - what are these weird little glyphs, like this little V with a dot? Well these are standing in for special characters. And the only reason I'm seeing them, first of all, is because I have hidden characters showing. I've turned on the Paragraph symbol. And notice that a regular space is just a dot, but these are standing for a different kind of space. If I…

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