[pbkry2r]

I suspect it's some sort of coding gone wrong. This manuscript was scanned
in from a printed book and converted to Word. The default language on the
document was Asian (Japanese), which wasn't even listed as a language option
for my version of word. I made a new template and copied the files over as
plain text so I could set the default at U.S. English. Perhaps some errant
coding followed it over. Thanks for your suggestions!

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

If you find out who created it, you could point out to them that
there's a "Combining Diacritic" for dot-under, which might do what
they need without hanging around when the letter it's under is
deleted. (Somehow it knows to disappear when you delete its host
letter.)

On Jan 12, 6:38 pm, pbkry2r wrote:
Thanks! After much trial and error, I was able to select the dot, press Alt-X
and it gave me the Unicode. Turns out it's a dot from the private use area
of the symbols. Well, someone at my company must need it ...

Thanks again!



"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Can you select the dot? (Put the cursor before or after it and type
Shift-RightArrow or -LeftArrow.) If you can, then you can delete it --
but before you delete it, press Alt-X and it will tell you the Unicode
number for the character, and you can look it up in Insert Symbol.

On Jan 12, 1:55 pm, pbkry2r wrote:
I have a movable dot under a letter in a manuscript I'm editing and I can't
figure out what it's for or how to delete it. It's under a does-not-equal
sign, and when I delete the sign and replace it with a new one, the dot moves
to another letter. When I delete the letters and retype them, the dot
returns to its original spot. I'm not talking about the dots that appear
between letters when you click the show/hide formatting key. I'm not
tracking changes or adding comments in this document, but I am using
bookmarks. Could the bookmark be leaving this dot?

Windows XP Pro, Word 2007, all with current service packs.
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