the Japanese Yen, copyright symbols, registration marks, and trademarks are all considered special characters and must be inserted using the Text category within the Insert bar (see Figure 3.26). Figure 3.26. The text category of the Insert bar contains a submenu of special characters. [View full size image]   TIP Of course, special characters are also available from the Insert, HTML, Special Characters submenu.   You're also not limited to the special characters in this list. Dreamweaver includes a character map that provides numerous other special characters you can insert into your page. To open the character map, choose the Other Characters option from the Special Characters submenu. As you can see from Figure 3.27, the Insert Other Character dialog appears with numerous other special characters. Figure 3.27. Use the Insert Other Character dialog to insert characters other than those listed in the menu.   The last special character that you can insert is the Non-Breaking Space. The Non-Breaking Space, which is similar to the space bar in most word processing programs, simply inserts a space. By default, browsers ignore white space within HTML code. Since this is the case, a Non-Breaking Space, represented by   must be inserted to alert the browser that a space should be recognized. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver doesn't map the space bar to automatically insert a Non-Breaking Space. You can, however, modify Dreamweaver Preferences to automatically insert a Non-Breaking Space when you press the space bar. To do this, simply choose Preferences from the Edit menu. From the General category, enable the Allow Multiple Consecutive Spaces option and click OK. To test the functionality, place your cursor anywhere on the page and press the space bar repeatedly. As you can see from Figure 3.28 which shows the Split view, the space is added to the designer, and the   special character is added to the code. Figure 3.28. The Non-Breaking Space is added to Code view while a normal white space is added to the design view. [View full size image]   Checking Your Spelling One of the last things that I like to do before calling a web page finished is to check the spelling. Dreamweaver integrates a spell checking engine that functions similar to those found in popular word processing programs. To use the spell checker built into Dreamweaver simply select the Check Spelling option from the Text menu. The Check Spelling dialog appears. The Check Spelling dialog includes the following functionality: Word not found in dictionary: As Dreamweaver scans your document, words that are not found within Dreamweaver's dictionary are listed here one at a time. Suggestions and Change to: Once a word has been located that is not found within Dreamweaver's dictionary, a list of suggestions are made. You can select a word from this suggestion list and click OK to change to the word highlighted in the Change To text box. Add to Personal: You can add a word to your personal dictionary so that Dreamweaver doesn't detect it as a mispelled word the next time you run the spell checker.