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Replacing a "rectangle" character in a list
I exported a document from a business plan program to Word 2002. I get
some lists with "bullets" that look like an open rectangle that's taller than wide in front of each phrase on the line. I want to replace these with spaces or nulls. When I select and copy the character into the Replace dialogue, the character is not found in the document. How can i do it? What might that character be? If I try to "unbullet" the list or change the bullet via the Format menu, the strange character remains. when is paste one line of the document here, the rectangle shows as a black, round bullet!! ·Inexpensive ·Easy-to-use for businesses and consumers |
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Replacing a "rectangle" character in a list
Does the rectangle print? In many cases, such a character is Word's "I can't
print this" symbol for a character that is, for whatever reason, unavailable to the current printer. Often it doesn't print. You can change the bullet as part of the paragraph/style formatting. Use Format | Bullets and Numbering to change the bullet character for selected text. -- 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. "EleFan" wrote in message oups.com... I exported a document from a business plan program to Word 2002. I get some lists with "bullets" that look like an open rectangle that's taller than wide in front of each phrase on the line. I want to replace these with spaces or nulls. When I select and copy the character into the Replace dialogue, the character is not found in the document. How can i do it? What might that character be? If I try to "unbullet" the list or change the bullet via the Format menu, the strange character remains. when is paste one line of the document here, the rectangle shows as a black, round bullet!! ·Inexpensive ·Easy-to-use for businesses and consumers |
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Replacing a "rectangle" character in a list
Didn't try to print the document as it was in Word or BPlan. I could
apply the bullet format, but it just adds my bullets in front of the strange characters. I end up deleting the characters one by one and then applying bulleting. I didn't want to have to do that because it's tedious, but it works and I did. (smile) I won't be using the business plan software again anyway; I can do a better plan from scratch just in Word, which I love anyway. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Does the rectangle print? In many cases, such a character is Word's "I can't print this" symbol for a character that is, for whatever reason, unavailable to the current printer. Often it doesn't print. You can change the bulletas part of the paragraph/style formatting. Use Format | Bullets and Numbering to change the bullet character for selected text. -- 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 newsgroupso all may benefit. "EleFan" wrote in message oups.com... I exported a document from a business plan program to Word 2002. I get some lists with "bullets" that look like an open rectangle that's taller than wide in front of each phrase on the line. I want to replace these with spaces or nulls. When I select and copy the character into the Replace dialogue, the character is not found in the document. How can i do it? What might that character be? If I try to "unbullet" the list or change the bullet via the Format menu, the strange character remains. when is paste one line of the document here, the rectangle shows as a black, round bullet!! ·Inexpensive ·Easy-to-use for businesses and consumers |
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Replacing a "rectangle" character in a list
In that case the bullet has been added manually. Your procedure is about all
that can be done, though it could probably have been expedited by using Find and Replace to find the character, delete it, and apply a style such as List Bullet. -- 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. "EleFan" wrote in message oups.com... Didn't try to print the document as it was in Word or BPlan. I could apply the bullet format, but it just adds my bullets in front of the strange characters. I end up deleting the characters one by one and then applying bulleting. I didn't want to have to do that because it's tedious, but it works and I did. (smile) I won't be using the business plan software again anyway; I can do a better plan from scratch just in Word, which I love anyway. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Does the rectangle print? In many cases, such a character is Word's "I can't print this" symbol for a character that is, for whatever reason, unavailable to the current printer. Often it doesn't print. You can change the bullet as part of the paragraph/style formatting. Use Format | Bullets and Numbering to change the bullet character for selected text. -- 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. "EleFan" wrote in message oups.com... I exported a document from a business plan program to Word 2002. I get some lists with "bullets" that look like an open rectangle that's taller than wide in front of each phrase on the line. I want to replace these with spaces or nulls. When I select and copy the character into the Replace dialogue, the character is not found in the document. How can i do it? What might that character be? If I try to "unbullet" the list or change the bullet via the Format menu, the strange character remains. when is paste one line of the document here, the rectangle shows as a black, round bullet!! ·Inexpensive ·Easy-to-use for businesses and consumers |
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