Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Macro to Find special hyphen (aka "Crooked L)
I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. -- akkrug |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
I found the optional hyphen under the find and replace special tab, but how
do I delete the hyphen as opposed to replacing it with some other character? Thanks. -- akkrug "akkrug" wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. -- akkrug |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed
characters - search for ^l -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Looks like replacing the optional hyphen with shift delete works ok.
Thanks. Ken K. -- akkrug "akkrug" wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. -- akkrug |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
No, they're conditional hyphens: ¬ (Unicode 00AC).
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed characters - search for ^l -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Hi Kenneth,
What does Shift Delete do? That's a new one to me. You can replace the ¬ (^- in "Find what") with nothing (in "Replace with"). Greetings, Klaus "akkrug" wrote: Looks like replacing the optional hyphen with shift delete works ok. Thanks. Ken K. -- akkrug "akkrug" wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. -- akkrug |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
I spotted that - this is what comes from working off line - the suggestions
are often superseded by events -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: No, they're conditional hyphens: ¬ (Unicode 00AC). "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed characters - search for ^l -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
I don't know why the conditional hyphens can't be deleted normally, but
Shift+Delete does a Cut, so sometimes appears to effect a slightly different deletion from just pressing Delete - for example a selected row in a table will be removed (to the clipboard) rather than just emptied of content. -- Enjoy, Tony "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... Hi Kenneth, What does Shift Delete do? That's a new one to me. You can replace the ¬ (^- in "Find what") with nothing (in "Replace with"). Greetings, Klaus "akkrug" wrote: Looks like replacing the optional hyphen with shift delete works ok. Thanks. Ken K. -- akkrug "akkrug" wrote: I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing? Thanks! Ken K. - 2191 P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off. -- akkrug |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Mail merge macro does not find database query | Mailmerge | |||
Find and Replace feature when recording a Macro | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Use macro to find in text box | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Paste Special Macro | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Should be simple! Macro to find italics won't run | Microsoft Word Help |