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{{Historical}}
This essay concerns the use of [[copy and paste]] to insert text into a page. For years, Wikipedia had a bottom section during an edit-preview to show various markup and special characters to copy/paste onto a page.

== Wikipedia copy/paste section ==
The following box shows copy/paste symbols which appeared during an edit-preview of a page. The actual live symbols table: [[MediaWiki:Edittools]].

{{#invoke:string|replace|{{MediaWiki:Edittools}}|2=id="editpage-specialchars"|3=}}

Depending on each user's view in [[Special:Preferences]], such as Monobook skin, the copy/paste section might not appear during an edit-preview of a page. Also, some browsers might see an Insert-menu, to select among various groups of symbols.

==See also==
* [[WP:Advanced template coding]]
* [[WP:Advanced table formatting]]
* [[WP:Advanced text formatting]]