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Click the "start" button on the lower lefthand corner of your screen. Click "run", enter "charmap", it will show all your installed fonts and the available characters and wingdings for each font. You may click on a specific character to enlarge it slightly and by "copy & paste" you can insert it in any text you want to. On the bottom of the charmap window it will also let you know which keystroke to use for writing that character.

For Mac users: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/symbols.html

hold down alt and put in a number combination on your number pad. (wont work on laptop)