Outlook: insert symbols of degree, trademark, emotions, and euro

Normally it is easy to find out the symbol gallery with clicking the Symbol > More Symbols on the Insert tab in the Message window.

However, there are too many special symbols in the Symbol gallery to find out a specified one in a short time easily. This article is provided to guide you find out the specified symbols of degree, trademark, emotions, and euro in Microsoft Outlook at once.

Insert symbol of degree, trademark, emotions and euro with symbol function

Save symbols as auto text entry and reuse them in the future with one click

Insert symbol of degree, trademark, emotions and euro with symbol function

Step 1: Create a new email message:

• In Outlook 2007, click the File > New > Mail Message.
• In Outlook 2010 and 2013, please click the New Email button in the New group on the Home tab.

Step 2: Open the Symbol dialog box with clicking the Symbol > More Symbols in the Symbols group on the Insert tab.

Step 3: Find out special symbols:

• Find out the degree symbol
• In the Font: box, select (or entry) the (normal text);
• In the Subset: box, select (or entry) the Latin-1 Supplement.

Then you will see the Degree symbol at once.

Find out the Trade mark symbol

• In the Font: box, select (or entry) the (normal text);
• In the Subset: box, select (or entry) the Letterlike Symbols.

Then you will see the trade mark symbol as following:

Find out the emotion symbol

In the Font: box, please select (or entry) the Windings, and then you will get the emotion symbols. See the following screen shot:

Find out the Euro sign

• In the Font: box, select (or entry) the Aparajita;
• In the Subset: box, select (or entry) the Currency Symbols.

Then you will see the Euro sign as following:

Step 4: Click the Insert button in the Symbols dialog box.

Save symbols as auto text entry and reuse them in the future with one click

After inserting multiple symbols in a composing email message with above method, here I introduce the AutoText utility of Kutools for Outlook to save all these symbols as individual auto text entry, and resue them in the future with only one click

Kutools for Outlook : with more than 100 handy Outlook add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days.

1. Select the symbol such as the smiley face, and click the New AutoText button. In the New AutoText dialog box, enter a name for the smiley face, create a new category for locating it and then click the OK button. See screenshot:

2. Repeat the step 1 to save other symbols as autotext entries. Now all symbols are saved as autotext entries as below screenshot. Click the autotext entry in the Kutools Pane, the symbol will be inserted to the email body immediately.

Note: If the Kutools Pane does not display in the email window, please click Kutools > Pane to open it. See screenshot: