That suggests it's gotten converted to a Symbol font character, and
those don't have Unicode codes.
Can you go back to the program in which the document was created, and
Find/Replace all the fi characters to the f i sequence? (Does the same
thing happen with fl and ff?)
On Feb 28, 8:44*pm, Uddhava wrote:
Dear Suzanne,
Thanks for your help. When I select the letter d and then alt+x, the d is
replaced with 0064. but when I do the same with this symbol, there is no
change, the symbol remains.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Select the symbol in question and press Alt+X. What is the result? The
number you get is the Unicode number for the character in question. Also,
does the font you are using contain character F001 (the fi ligature)?
Calibri and Cambria, the two default fonts in Word 2007, do not, whereas
Times New Roman and Arial do.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Uddhava" wrote in message
...
Dear all,
I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has
come
out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol
(see
attached pic).
http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn
So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy
this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word *document. However if I
copy
and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as
a
blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is
not
what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am
typing
now it also comes out as a blank space.
So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have
had
the same problem before with various different symbols. )
Thank you