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Characters being ignored?
I am trying to do a Find/Replace do a symbol character throughout an entire
document. The character is clearly used in many many lines within cell tables, but the Ctrl+H (Find/Replace) is not seeing them and replacing them. Any reason why a table should make a difference? (Win XP/Office 2003) -Monica |
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What is the character?
-- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... I am trying to do a Find/Replace do a symbol character throughout an entire document. The character is clearly used in many many lines within cell tables, but the Ctrl+H (Find/Replace) is not seeing them and replacing them. Any reason why a table should make a difference? (Win XP/Office 2003) -Monica |
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A dot from the Times New Roman font. Character code 25CF.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What is the character? -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... I am trying to do a Find/Replace do a symbol character throughout an entire document. The character is clearly used in many many lines within cell tables, but the Ctrl+H (Find/Replace) is not seeing them and replacing them. Any reason why a table should make a difference? (Win XP/Office 2003) -Monica |
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I think it might be difficult to find this character even outside a table.
But are you using it as an automatic bullet, or is it inserted manually? You might want to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.htm -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... A dot from the Times New Roman font. Character code 25CF. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What is the character? -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... I am trying to do a Find/Replace do a symbol character throughout an entire document. The character is clearly used in many many lines within cell tables, but the Ctrl+H (Find/Replace) is not seeing them and replacing them. Any reason why a table should make a difference? (Win XP/Office 2003) -Monica |
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The test was originally copied and pasted from a PDF, so they are being
recognized as Symbols. Already did the Find/Replace. What bothers me is why is the character only being recognized in the text of the document, and not within the cells of a table? I think you are missing the point of my question - I don't have a problem with Symbols and I don't have a problem with Ctrl+H. I have a problem with Word not recognizing the request for a specific character when said character exists in a cell. See?? Thanks, -Monica "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I think it might be difficult to find this character even outside a table. But are you using it as an automatic bullet, or is it inserted manually? You might want to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.htm -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... A dot from the Times New Roman font. Character code 25CF. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What is the character? -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... I am trying to do a Find/Replace do a symbol character throughout an entire document. The character is clearly used in many many lines within cell tables, but the Ctrl+H (Find/Replace) is not seeing them and replacing them. Any reason why a table should make a difference? (Win XP/Office 2003) -Monica |
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Well, FWIW, I can't reproduce your experience. If I insert that character in
a table and outside a table, Word will find both. But if I use that character as the bullet in an automatic bulleted list, Word will not find it. -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... The test was originally copied and pasted from a PDF, so they are being recognized as Symbols. Already did the Find/Replace. What bothers me is why is the character only being recognized in the text of the document, and not within the cells of a table? I think you are missing the point of my question - I don't have a problem with Symbols and I don't have a problem with Ctrl+H. I have a problem with Word not recognizing the request for a specific character when said character exists in a cell. See?? Thanks, -Monica "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I think it might be difficult to find this character even outside a table. But are you using it as an automatic bullet, or is it inserted manually? You might want to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.htm -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... A dot from the Times New Roman font. Character code 25CF. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What is the character? -- 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. "MDavison" wrote in message ... I am trying to do a Find/Replace do a symbol character throughout an entire document. The character is clearly used in many many lines within cell tables, but the Ctrl+H (Find/Replace) is not seeing them and replacing them. Any reason why a table should make a difference? (Win XP/Office 2003) -Monica |
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