Did you ever want to put a special character like the cent sign (¢) or the
British pound sign (£) into a document or email? Or use the correct symbols
for Spanish or other languages? Regular users of word processing programs
like Microsoft Word probably already know how to do this but many average PC
users are not aware that easy methods of inserting special characters are
readily available. This two part article shows you how.
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