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Inserting special characters - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Inserting special characters
- [Instructor] Quick, tell me what the keyboard shortcut is to type the registered trademark symbol, or how about an en dash, or an em dash. If you don't use these characters very often, 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 by first selecting the Type tool, clicking inside this paragraph, and then zooming into to 200% by pressing cmd + 2 or ctrl + 2 on Windows. Now, I'm going to click after this word Petal. Let's add a special character after the name of this company. To find it, go to the Type menu, come all the way down to the Insert Special Character sub-menu, then look inside the Symbols sub-menu, and you can see that there are all kinds of characters in here. The Bullet Character, Copyright Symbol, Ah, there's the one I was looking…
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