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    <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Special Character</title>
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  <paragraph id="par_id3150838" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><variable id="sonder"><ahelp hid=".">Allows a user to insert characters from the range of symbols found in the installed fonts.</ahelp></variable></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3152372" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">When you click a character in the <emph>Special Characters</emph> dialog, a preview and the corresponding numerical code for the character is displayed.</paragraph>
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  <h2 id="hd_id451614794558893">Search</h2>
  <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id741614794572948">Enter the UTF-8 name or part of the name of the character to display the UTF-8 character in the top left square of the grid. The name of the character cannot be translated. For example, enter <literal>tilde</literal> to display <literal>~</literal> and enter <literal>latin capital letter O with circumflex</literal> to display <literal>Ô</literal>.</paragraph>
<h2 id="hd_id3151315">Font</h2>
  <paragraph id="par_id3152924" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="cui/ui/specialcharacters/fontlb">Select a font to display the special characters that are associated with it.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id3155555">Character block</h2>
<paragraph id="par_id3145090" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="cui/ui/specialcharacters/subsetlb">Select a Unicode block for the current font.</ahelp> The special characters for the selected Unicode block are displayed in the character table.</paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id3145071">Character Table</h2>
  <paragraph id="par_id3154288" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="HID_CHARMAP_CTL_SHOWSET">Click the special character(s) that you want to insert, and then click <emph>Insert</emph>.</ahelp></paragraph>
<h2 id="hd_id3154317">Recent Characters</h2>
  <paragraph id="par_id3152551" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Displays the special characters that were inserted recently.</paragraph>
<h2 id="hd_id9854317">Favorite Characters</h2>
  <paragraph id="par_id3159351" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Displays the special characters that were chosen with the <emph>Add to Favorites</emph> button. Up to 16 special characters can be saved as a favorite.</paragraph>

  <tip id="par_id31525545" xml-lang="en-US">Double-click on a special character will insert it into the document.</tip>
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