The typographic symbol used to designate the word and is the latin symbol for et which means and the name ampersand is believed to be derived from the phrase and per se and.
Roof symbol keyboard.
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You can select text and press ctrl c to copy it to your docu ment.
You can assign mathematical square root symbol and any other text characters to your keyboard using this technique.
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If the keyboard combinations on macos are too tricky you also can use the character viewer to manually insert a special character or symbol.
Alternatively for ms word users type the character code 221a then press alt x to convert this code into the symbol.
This will not work on the samsung keyboard.
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Shift click a button to insert its upper case form.
Takes about 5 10 minutes to set things up but you ll be typing like a boss.
On a standard english layout keyboard the ampersand is accessed with shift 7 in many fonts the ampersand looks much like a cursive s or a curvy plus sign but in other fonts you can.
Configure your keyboard layout in windows so that you can type all additional symbols you want as easy as any other text.
Typing symbols using the character palette in macos.
If you don t see the symbol you want to type try long pressing a symbol to see variations of it.
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