Now, whenever you want a degree symbol all you need to do is type your mnemonic and when you press the spacebar Word expands it to your degree symbol.The easiest way to get the Degree Celsius text symbol is to copy and paste it wherever you need it.
The new AutoCorrect entry is added to the list of entries.
With the insertion point in the With box, hold down the Alt key as you type 0176 on the numeric keypad. In the Replace box, enter a mnemonic you want to use, such as "" (without the quote marks). The AutoCorrect tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box. Word displays the AutoCorrect dialog box, and the AutoCorrect tab should be selected. Choose AutoCorrect Options from the Tools menu. Word then lets you decide which shortcut you want to use.Īnother approach is to create an AutoCorrect entry for the degree symbol. Display the Symbol dialog box, select the degree symbol, and then click the Shortcut Key button. If you don't want to use one of these methods to enter the degree symbol, you could also create your own shortcut. The solution is to put a space before the code and then delete it afterward. If you have some other number immediately before the code (especially if you shorten it to B0), Word gets confused because it can't tell if the preceding number is part of the code or not. If you choose to go the route of using the Unicode value, you should understand that what you have before the code is important. To use the Unicode value, type 00B0 (although you can leave off the leading zeroes) and then press Alt+X. To use the ASCII value, just hold down the Alt key as you type 0176 on the numeric keypad. You could also use the ASCII or Unicode values to enter the character. Bingo! The degree symbol appears in your document. The first way is to simply use the shortcut shown: Just press (remember that you need to hold down the Shift key to get the character) and then press the spacebar. This information provides two ways you can use the keyboard to enter the degree symbol. You should also see a shortcut for the symbol which is Space" (without the quote marks). In this case, you see the value 176 (the ASCII value for the degree symbol) or 00B0 (the Unicode value for the degree symbol, in hexadecimal). When you display the Symbol dialog box and select the character you want to insert (in this case the degree symbol), you should see some information about the character at the bottom of the dialog box. 
The shortcut would make typing much faster and easier. She wonders, though, if there is a keyboard shortcut for adding the symbol. Beverly knows that she can add a temperature degree symbol to her document by using the Symbol dialog box.
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