microsoft word special characters shortcuts

When nonprinting characters are shown, a nonbreaking space is displayed as a ring (°). A nonbreaking space can be inserted by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Space. Nonbreaking spaces are also used to keep numbers together with the names of units that follow them, as in 0.5 liter. Nonbreaking spaces are often used to keep the parts of names and dates together. A nonbreaking space, which is also called a hard space keeps the text before it and after it together on the same line while inserting a space in between. The latter group of special characters includes the following special characters. Word's special characters include both special symbols and nonprinting characters that do something other than display a symbol or white space. You can also click the Shortcut Key and AutoCorrect buttons to add, delete, or modify the shortcut keys and AutoCorrect character sequences that can be used to insert any of the special characters. Some of them can also be inserted by pressing the applicable shortcut key, and others are inserted by the AutoCorrect feature when the applicable character sequence is typed. You can double-click any of the special characters listed to insert it into your document. After the Symbol dialog box opens, click the Special Characters tab. To open the Symbol dialog box, in the Symbols group on the Insert tab of the Ribbon, click Symbol, and then click More Symbols.

The special characters are listed on the Special Characters tab of the Symbol dialog box.

Word refers to a specific set of characters as special characters.

Microsoft word special characters shortcuts