Absolute Beginner's Guide to WordPerfect® 12

Inserting Symbols

The capability to insert symbols is one area in which WordPerfect stands head and shoulders above the competition. WordPerfect Office 12 comes with fonts for more than 1,500 special characters and symbols, including entire foreign language alphabets. You can insert the characters anywhere in your document.

Using the Symbols Dialog Box

The Symbols dialog box has a complete list of all the character sets and special characters. You can switch to a different character set and quickly insert any symbol from the list.

To insert special characters with the Symbols dialog box

1.	Click in the document where you want the special character to appear.
2.	Choose Insert, Symbol (Ctrl+W) to open the Symbols dialog box (see Figure 5.10). You ...