Inserting accented letters with the menu bar or Ribbon

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Select the Insert tab on the Ribbon or click Insert in the menu bar.
3. On the Insert tab or the Insert drop-down, select the Symbol option.
4. Select the desired accented character or symbol from the list of symbols.

There are two Alt keys on most keyboards. To create the international characters, hold down the Alt key to the space bar’s right, and press the letter you want. If you wish the accented character to be capitalized, hold down the right-Alt key, the Shift key, and then press the corresponding letter.

For keyboard shortcuts in which you press one key immediately followed by another key, the keys to press are separated by a comma (,)….Keyboard shortcuts for international characters.

Windows 10 Look for the keyboard icon on the right-hand side of your taskbar, bring up the on-screen keyboard, and hold down (or left-click and hold) your cursor over the letter you’d like to accent. You’ll see a grid of potential accented letters you can choose from.

Grave on iOS and Android Mobile Devices Press and hold the A, E, I, O, or U key on the virtual keyboard to open a window with accent options for that letter.

iOS or Android device: Press and hold the A, N, or O key on the virtual keyboard, then select the tilde option.

Special text characters are normal characters that don’t appear on standard keyboards; but once inserted, they look the same as keyboard characters.

Searching for Special Characters

1. Press Ctrl+F. Word displays the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
2. Click the More button, if it is available. (See Figure 1.)
3. In the Find What box, enter the text for which you want to search.
4. Set other searching parameters, as desired.
5. Click on Find Next.

The expanded Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. With the insertion point in the Find What box, click on the Special button and select a special character from the list….Searching for Special Characters

1. Press Ctrl+F.
2. In the box at the top of the Navigation pane, enter the text for which you want to search.

On the “Home” tab, click the “Replace” button. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+H. Click in the “Find What” box and then delete any existing text or characters. Click the “More>>” button to open up the additional options, click the “Special” button, and then click the “Paragraph Mark” option from the dropdown list.

Example of removing special characters using replaceAll() method

1. public class RemoveSpecialCharacterExample1.
2. {
3. public static void main(String args[])
4. {
5. String str= “This#string%contains^special*characters&.”;
6. str = str.replaceAll(“[^a-zA-Z0-9]”, ” “);
7. System.out.println(str);
8. }

Hide markup and comments in Word

1. To review changes one at a time, click Review then Accept or Reject.
2. On the Review tab, in the Comments group, click the arrow below Delete, then click Delete All Comments in Document.

The pilcrow, ¶, also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, or blind P, is a typographical character marking the start of a paragraph.

One of the formatting symbols words uses is a paragraph symbol (which basically looks like some kind of a “P”). Whenever a new paragraph is created in a Word document, this paragraph symbol is added to where the paragraph starts.

The pilcrow, also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P, is a typographical character for individual paragraphs. The pilcrow is usually drawn similar to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the loop can be filled or unfilled.

In academic writing, it is sometimes used as an in-text referencing tool to make reference to a specific paragraph from a document that does not contain page numbers. In proofreading, it indicates that one paragraph should be split into two or more separate paragraphs.

A pilcrow (¶) is a symbol that is used to indicate the end of a paragraph. When the symbol was first used circa 1440, it was designed as the letter C to indicate a capitulum, or “chapter,” in Latin, but was modified over the years to eventually include double lines and an inked in circle.

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