EDG System Administration

Go to System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu and make sure “Show input menu in menu bar” is checked. This will put a little flag in your menu bar.

Then click on your flag and select “Show Character Palette”. Then just click on the symbol you want and then click “Insert”. Here’s the angstrom symbol: Ã…

You can see a list of special characters in windows by running Start -> Run -> charmap.

Then, just double-click the character you want and click copy. You should then be able to paste the character into your document.

As an example, I’ll paste the angstrom symbol here: Ã…