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Add Symbols Around Letters

Add Symbols Around Letters

Add symbols around each letter in text automatically. Preserves spacing, punctuation, formatting. Use asterisks, tildes, underscores, or characters for styling.

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About Add Symbols Around Letters


Surround each letter of your text with decorative symbols quickly and easily. This tool identifies letters in your text and adds specified symbols on the left and/or right side of each letter, while preserving all spacing, punctuation, and formatting. Useful for creating stylized text, adding decorative effects, or formatting text in creative ways.

Features


The Add Symbols Around Letters tool provides the following features:

  • Letter Detection - Automatically identifies letters (a-z, A-Z) in your text.
  • Flexible Symbol Wrapping - Adds symbols on the left and/or right side of each letter, creating decorative effects. You can use different symbols for left and right sides.
  • Preserve Formatting - Maintains all spacing, punctuation, numbers, and line breaks in your original text.
  • Flexible Symbols - Use any character or symbol, including asterisks, tildes, underscores, or custom characters.
  • Easy to Use - Simply enter your text, specify left and/or right symbols, and process with a single click.
  • Preserve Structure - Keeps the original text structure intact, only modifying letters.

Examples


  • Same Symbol on Both Sides
    Input:
    Hello world! This is a test.
    
    Left Symbol: *
    Right Symbol: *
    
    Output:
    *H*e*l*l*o *w*o*r*l*d*! *T*h*i*s *i*s *a *t*e*s*t*.
  • Different Symbols
    Input:
    Quick brown fox
    
    Left Symbol: [
    Right Symbol: ]
    
    Output:
    [Q]u[i]c[k] [b]r[o]w[n] [f]o[x]
  • Left Symbol Only
    Input:
    Test
    
    Left Symbol: _
    Right Symbol: (empty)
    
    Output:
    _T_e_s_t_
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