How to Put Darood in Arabic on Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in Microsoft Word

There is a very helpful feature built into Microsoft Word as explained in a video by Sh. Mikaeel Ahmed Smith. This can especially be helpful if you write Islamic articles, essays, research papers, etc. in Microsoft Word. The basic steps are as follows:

1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Type fdfa where you want to put the darood
3. Hold down the ALT key and then press down on the X key
4. Now fdfa should automatically switch to ﷺ

There are other Arabic shortcut phrases as well. The chart below goes into more detail about those: