Insert symbols or special characters
You can quickly insert special characters and symbols in the SDL Trados Studio translation editor.
Inserting special characters
To insert a special character:
Go to the Advanced tab and click Insert symbol. This brings up a dialog showing all the available special characters (all Unicode characters). You can browse through all the available characters or narrow down the selection by choosing any of the character categories from the drop down box. Clicking the Insert button inserts the character directly in the editor.
Once you have inserted a character, a new shortcut button appears on the ribbon, which you can use to quickly insert that character without having to browse for it again. There are a maximum of 9 shortcut buttons. The shortcut buttons are automatically kept up-to-date to reflect the 9 most recently used characters.
Keyboard shortcuts
Be more productive, by using keyboard shortcuts. If you press ALT + A, you will see keyboard hints appearing as in the picture below. So ALT + A + 1 inserts the first character and so on. You can also use ALT + SHIFT + <number> to insert one of the recent characters.