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<p class="Head3">Here's how to insert special characters (e.g. checks, boxes, or telephone icons) into your text.</p>
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<p class="P2">You get a selection of all the characters through the menu item <span class="T1">Adding - Special Characters</span>.</p>
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<p class="P2">In any text input field (e.g. in the URL field of the Function Bar or in the input fields in the Search&Replace dialog) you can press (Shift)<help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">(Command)</help:case><help:default>(Ctrl)</help:default></help:switch>(S) to call up the <span class="T1">Special characters</span> dialog.</p>
