If the keyboard combinations on macos are too tricky you also can use the character viewer to manually insert a special character or symbol.
Roof symbol keyboard.
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.
If you don t see the symbol you want to type try long pressing a symbol to see variations of it.
To type the square root symbol in word on your keyboard press down the alt key and type the square root symbol alt code i e.
Stop the mouse over each button to learn its keyboard shortcut.
Shift click a button to insert its upper case form.
For example tapping and holding the question mark will prompt a menu with an upside down question mark to appear.
Find the symbol you want to type in the keyboard.
251 using the numeric keypad then release the alt key.
Look for your symbol.
Typing symbols using the character palette in macos.
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.
This will not work on the samsung keyboard.
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Takes about 5 10 minutes to set things up but you ll be typing like a boss.
Alt click a button to copy a single character to the clipboard.