How do I make a shortcut key for the degree sign

[little flo]

I am typing recipes for a cookbook and would like to use the degree symbol.
How do I accomplish this using shortcut keys? I am using Word 2003.

 

[grammatim]

Go to the Insert Symbol pane, select the character (don't double-click
it yet), and at the bottom it'll give you the opportunity to assign
your own key combination for it. Be sure "normal.dot" appears in the
window at the bottom for including it in a template, and you should be
able to use that key combination in any documents from now on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Grammatim has told you how to assign a custom shortcut key, which you may
want to do, as the built-in one is a bit of a contortion exercise:

Ctrl+Shift+@, Spacebar.

 

[grammatim]

Evidently degree sign doesn't count as an "international character,"
since it's not in the list of keyboard shortcuts you get when you ask
Help for the list of keyboard shortcuts! (It's the same as putting the
ring accent on top of a or A for Scandinavian languages -- so maybe
it's the ring accent rather than the degree sign? The degree sign is
bigger and lower.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's listed in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm. If you
select the degree symbol in the Symbol dialog, the keyboard shortcut (for
"(normal text)") is given at the bottom of the dialog.

 

[Cheryl Flanders]

A quicker way is to use AutoCorrect instead of assigning the required
awkward keyboard shortcuts. Insert the degree sign in your document,
then press Alt + J to open the AutoCorrect dialog box. The degree
sign will already be in the With box. Click the Formatted Text option
directly above the With box. In the Replace box, enter ;d for your
abbreviation. You would type 350;d and press the spacebar. The
semicolon (and other punctuation marks) tells Word that you do not
want a space between what you typed and the next letter or symbol.

Cheryl