Special Characters

Tips, Tricks, and Answers

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Creating a Proper Registered Trademark Symbol
If you want to have Word properly insert a superscripted registered trademark symbol when you type (r), it only takes a few changes to AutoCorrect. Here's how to do it.

Displaying Object Anchors
An object anchor is used to signify the point at which an object is inserted into a document. If you want to see these anchors, you need to configure Word to display them.

Using a Non-Breaking Hyphen
Want to add a dash between words, but not allow Word to perform an automatic line break after the dash? What you need is known as a non-breaking hyphen. There are two ways you can add these critters to your documents, as described in this tip.