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Good morning,
I am using windows XP Pro SP2 machine and Office 2003 SP3 I have a document that is automatically generated from a web client, when i try to open the document i get the file conversion windows and i can select either Windows (default) or anything else. no matter what i select I get the text fine but there are squares at some random places. those squares do not copy to the clip board, otherwise i would have written a macro to get rid of them. I cannot paste an example here becasue the do not copy, all i get is an empty space. if you have any idea how to get rid of them, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you |
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Good morning, I am using windows XP Pro SP2 machine and Office 2003 SP3 I have a document that is automatically generated from a web client, when i try to open the document i get the file conversion windows and i can select either Windows (default) or anything else. no matter what i select I get the text fine but there are squares at some random places. those squares do not copy to the clip board, otherwise i would have written a macro to get rid of them. I cannot paste an example here becasue the do not copy, all i get is an empty space. if you have any idea how to get rid of them, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you The squares are usually the result of a character code number for which the current font doesn't have any defined character. The Find/Replace function can find the squares by the code number and replace them with a space or delete them. To find out what the code number is: - Select a square in the text. - Press Alt+F11 to open the macro editor. - Press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate window at the bottom of the macro editor. - Type in the Immediate window print asc(selection) and press Enter. The code number will appear on the next line. It's possible that different squares have different numbers, so try several others to see their numbers. To remove the squares from the document, open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type a caret (^) followed by the code number. In the Replace With box, either type a space character or (to just delete the squares) leave it empty. Click the Replace All button. If there are squares with other numbers, repeat the Replace for them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Good morning Jay,
I did as you said, and I got the code " 13 " with the spaces, but when i try to find and replace it does not find anything. any ideas? thanks for your help "Jay Freedman" wrote: Zessler wrote: Good morning, I am using windows XP Pro SP2 machine and Office 2003 SP3 I have a document that is automatically generated from a web client, when i try to open the document i get the file conversion windows and i can select either Windows (default) or anything else. no matter what i select I get the text fine but there are squares at some random places. those squares do not copy to the clip board, otherwise i would have written a macro to get rid of them. I cannot paste an example here becasue the do not copy, all i get is an empty space. if you have any idea how to get rid of them, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you The squares are usually the result of a character code number for which the current font doesn't have any defined character. The Find/Replace function can find the squares by the code number and replace them with a space or delete them. To find out what the code number is: - Select a square in the text. - Press Alt+F11 to open the macro editor. - Press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate window at the bottom of the macro editor. - Type in the Immediate window print asc(selection) and press Enter. The code number will appear on the next line. It's possible that different squares have different numbers, so try several others to see their numbers. To remove the squares from the document, open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type a caret (^) followed by the code number. In the Replace With box, either type a space character or (to just delete the squares) leave it empty. Click the Replace All button. If there are squares with other numbers, repeat the Replace for them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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The asc(selection) expression returned a result containing spaces?? I would
have said that's impossible, as the asc() function returns an integer result. Would you mind sending a copy of one of these documents to my email address? I'd like to examine it more closely. Zessler wrote: Good morning Jay, I did as you said, and I got the code " 13 " with the spaces, but when i try to find and replace it does not find anything. any ideas? thanks for your help "Jay Freedman" wrote: Zessler wrote: Good morning, I am using windows XP Pro SP2 machine and Office 2003 SP3 I have a document that is automatically generated from a web client, when i try to open the document i get the file conversion windows and i can select either Windows (default) or anything else. no matter what i select I get the text fine but there are squares at some random places. those squares do not copy to the clip board, otherwise i would have written a macro to get rid of them. I cannot paste an example here becasue the do not copy, all i get is an empty space. if you have any idea how to get rid of them, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you The squares are usually the result of a character code number for which the current font doesn't have any defined character. The Find/Replace function can find the squares by the code number and replace them with a space or delete them. To find out what the code number is: - Select a square in the text. - Press Alt+F11 to open the macro editor. - Press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate window at the bottom of the macro editor. - Type in the Immediate window print asc(selection) and press Enter. The code number will appear on the next line. It's possible that different squares have different numbers, so try several others to see their numbers. To remove the squares from the document, open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type a caret (^) followed by the code number. In the Replace With box, either type a space character or (to just delete the squares) leave it empty. Click the Replace All button. If there are squares with other numbers, repeat the Replace for them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I will caontact the client and ask them if the file contain any confidential
information. in the mean time send me your email address and if I have the go from him I'll send it on Monday. Thank you "Jay Freedman" wrote: The asc(selection) expression returned a result containing spaces?? I would have said that's impossible, as the asc() function returns an integer result. Would you mind sending a copy of one of these documents to my email address? I'd like to examine it more closely. Zessler wrote: Good morning Jay, I did as you said, and I got the code " 13 " with the spaces, but when i try to find and replace it does not find anything. any ideas? thanks for your help "Jay Freedman" wrote: Zessler wrote: Good morning, I am using windows XP Pro SP2 machine and Office 2003 SP3 I have a document that is automatically generated from a web client, when i try to open the document i get the file conversion windows and i can select either Windows (default) or anything else. no matter what i select I get the text fine but there are squares at some random places. those squares do not copy to the clip board, otherwise i would have written a macro to get rid of them. I cannot paste an example here becasue the do not copy, all i get is an empty space. if you have any idea how to get rid of them, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you The squares are usually the result of a character code number for which the current font doesn't have any defined character. The Find/Replace function can find the squares by the code number and replace them with a space or delete them. To find out what the code number is: - Select a square in the text. - Press Alt+F11 to open the macro editor. - Press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate window at the bottom of the macro editor. - Type in the Immediate window print asc(selection) and press Enter. The code number will appear on the next line. It's possible that different squares have different numbers, so try several others to see their numbers. To remove the squares from the document, open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type a caret (^) followed by the code number. In the Replace With box, either type a space character or (to just delete the squares) leave it empty. Click the Replace All button. If there are squares with other numbers, repeat the Replace for them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Click my name at the top of this post to find my address in my profile; or get
it from http://jay-freedman.info/contact/contact.htm. On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:19:33 -0700, Zessler wrote: I will caontact the client and ask them if the file contain any confidential information. in the mean time send me your email address and if I have the go from him I'll send it on Monday. Thank you "Jay Freedman" wrote: The asc(selection) expression returned a result containing spaces?? I would have said that's impossible, as the asc() function returns an integer result. Would you mind sending a copy of one of these documents to my email address? I'd like to examine it more closely. Zessler wrote: Good morning Jay, I did as you said, and I got the code " 13 " with the spaces, but when i try to find and replace it does not find anything. any ideas? thanks for your help "Jay Freedman" wrote: Zessler wrote: Good morning, I am using windows XP Pro SP2 machine and Office 2003 SP3 I have a document that is automatically generated from a web client, when i try to open the document i get the file conversion windows and i can select either Windows (default) or anything else. no matter what i select I get the text fine but there are squares at some random places. those squares do not copy to the clip board, otherwise i would have written a macro to get rid of them. I cannot paste an example here becasue the do not copy, all i get is an empty space. if you have any idea how to get rid of them, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you The squares are usually the result of a character code number for which the current font doesn't have any defined character. The Find/Replace function can find the squares by the code number and replace them with a space or delete them. To find out what the code number is: - Select a square in the text. - Press Alt+F11 to open the macro editor. - Press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate window at the bottom of the macro editor. - Type in the Immediate window print asc(selection) and press Enter. The code number will appear on the next line. It's possible that different squares have different numbers, so try several others to see their numbers. To remove the squares from the document, open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type a caret (^) followed by the code number. In the Replace With box, either type a space character or (to just delete the squares) leave it empty. Click the Replace All button. If there are squares with other numbers, repeat the Replace for them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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