How do I add a registered trademark symbol?

[Nick_C...@adobeforums.com]

Do I need a special font to add symbols like the registered trademark or copyright? Or, is there a way to do it with any font?

Thanks.

[Bert Philippus]

Type>Glyphs will bring up all the characters that exist for the font you have active. Most decent fonts have all the trademark and bunches of other symbols in their character set.

Another way is to open the Character Map in Windows (Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map).

Bert

[Nick_C...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks to both of your suggestions. I appreciate the help!

[Heather Bell]

Both Bert's suggestions are great.
Personally, I like the keyboard ease of typing in the codes though, I have a list of all my standards on the side of my PC. Any font that contains standard symbols should use the same code. For example, registered trademark is alt+0174, copyright alt+0169. I am an original MAC user and was very upset that the codes I was used to didn't work, now I've about got the PCs memorized too. I'm waiting for them to come out with a new platform all my customers will want and I'll have to use too, so I can start all over from scratch again :)

[Bert Philippus]

No Problem. It won't be a problem until the new forum software gets here...

[Harron_K....@adobeforums.com]

Any font that contains standard symbols should use the same code.

Not quite. Any font that contains the standard symbols and uses the the Windows standard (Western) encoding should use the same codes. Windows charmap is useful for Alt+code users, therefore, because it not only gives you the code but also lets you confirm the character encoding for your particular font. I have a keyboard shortcut assigned to call up charmap on demand. If you decide to do the same, make sure you pick a shortcut that won't conflict with any of your application's keyboard-based commands.

Since my memory is not what it used to be... and clearly not as good as Heather's... I have printed out a tiny cheat sheet of Alt+ codes and tacked it onto my wall near my monitors.

[Bert Philippus]

Harron:

Your monitors are tacked on your wall?

Bert

[Harron_K....@adobeforums.com]

Aren't yours?

[Bert Philippus]

Mine walk the hall.

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[Harron_K....@adobeforums.com]

Mmmfpf, glbbb...

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[Philo_...@adobeforums.com]

I don't memorize the alt codes but just use start>run and type "charmap" and left click once with the mouse on a symbol. The alt key combination will appear in the bottom right corner.

[rajonmon...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 10:47:40 PM UTC+6, Nick_C...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Do I need a special font to add symbols like the registered trademark or copyright? Or, is there a way to do it with any font?
>
> Thanks.

no