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June 23, 2008

How to Make the Copyright Symbol

Filed under: Tutorials — cynthiaschroeder246 @ 2:18 am
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© How to Make Copyright Symbol ©

1. Make sure to use your numeric keypad, not the numbers on the top of the keyboard.

2. NumLock needs to be ON.

3. Using the numeric keypad, hold down the Alt key

4. Hit the numbers 0, 1, 6, 9 (in succession) for © Copyright. Then you can let up the Alt key.

If you are using Microsoft Office, ALT+CTRL+C does it.

MacOS- option – g

Windows- Alt + 0169

Some Keyboards (such as the DELL Laptop have a key to the left of the space bar that has an “Fn” written on it In order to get the copyright symbol, try holding down this button at the same time as ALT+0169. So it’s Fn+ALT+0169

HTML Name Code- “&copy”

HTML number code- ” &#169″

Websites with more symbols.

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html

http://dwight.clickthesky.com/internettips/specialcharacters.shtml

If all else fails you can just copy and paste them.

How to make © in Photoshop

Remember: Not all fonts are capable of creating the © symbol. Try turning the Num Lock off, then change your font to Arial, Times New Roman, or another standerd font type. Hold ALT+0169 (numeric keypad). (with Num Lock off worked for me)

One other other option in Photoshop is to use a custom shape (which contains the copyright symbol) that comes with the program.

Or you can always draw the symbol by hand with a “c” and the circle tool as another option. Although I wouldn’t recommend it because it takes longer and it will get really frustrating if you have to do this method every time you want a © symbol.

If you are using a Mac, I’m not sure the keyboard shortcut for Photoshop, but you can easily make the symbol in Word (option-G), copy, and then paste it as text into Photoshop.

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