Teach you to play the symbol bar of the WPS Office

In writing articles often use a number of special symbols, such as "§" is often used, special symbols have many ways to enter, WPS provides a useful symbol bar to help us more convenient use of various symbols, the following we look at the WPS symbol bar usage and settings.

One, use the symbol bar

Look at the menu item "view | toolbar | symbol BAR" Is there a tick in front of it? If there is a tick, the symbol bar can be found in the WPS window, and if you click on the Symbol bar menu item without a tick, the symbol bar appears in the WPS window. Find the symbol you want on the symbol bar, and the symbol will be inserted into the WPS document when you click it.

Figure 1 The symbol bar for WPS

Two, custom symbol column

After all, the symbol on the symbol bar is limited, not necessarily in line with your needs, but WPS gives us full freedom.

1. Add symbol to Symbol bar

When you execute the menu item Insert | symbol, the symbol dialog box pops up, as shown in Figure 2

Figure 2 The "symbol" dialog box for WPS

On the Symbols tab, first select the Chinese and English fonts that you want from the Font drop-down list box. Then find the subset of the characters in the Subset Drop-down list box on the right, then find the characters you want to add in the symbol box below and click (insert directly into the current document when you double-click) and click Insert to Symbol Bar button, the selected symbol is inserted into the symbol bar (the Insert button inserts it into the current document).

If you need to insert special symbols such as paragraph characters into the symbol bar, navigate to the Special Characters tab, select the characters you want, and click the Insert to Symbol Bar button.

2. Remove symbol from symbol bar

For symbols that are not commonly used or can be easily invoked directly from the keyboard, we can remove them from the symbol bar to conserve space in the symbol bar.

In the Symbol bar tab of the Symbol dialog box, select the character you want to delete from the custom symbol edit box, and then click the Delete button in the lower-left corner, and the character is removed from the list, and the corresponding character on the toolbar is also deleted. If you just want to remove the character from the symbol bar and still keep it in the list, you can remove the check mark before the character, instead of clicking the Delete button.

Figure 3 Removing symbols from the symbol bar

3. Set character shortcut keys

For commonly used characters, it is best to assign shortcuts to it to speed up the entry speed.

When you define (or change) a shortcut key, first select the character in the custom symbol edit box to set the shortcut key. Then position the cursor in the shortcut key text box, press the shortcut key you want to set (note that you do not have the same shortcut key as the system), and click the Specify shortcut button to assign the shortcut key to the selected character.

To cancel a set shortcut, select the character in the custom symbol edit box for which you want to remove the accelerator key. Then position the cursor in the shortcut key text box, press the BACKSPACE key or the DELETE key, and a no word appears in the shortcut text box, click the Specify Shortcut button, The shortcut key for the selected character is canceled.

4. Adjust the order of characters in the symbol bar

In the Symbol Bar tab, select a character in the custom symbol edit box, and then click the Move Up or Move Down button to adjust its order in the symbol bar.

Third, the symbol column reset

If you want to restore the symbol bar to its original state, simply click the "Reset Symbol Bar" button.