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Strange formatting marks
I recieved a Word docuement from a co-worker. It contained some very
strange formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines. I have no idea what they are. The help screens don't help. So, my first question is: Where is the documentation for all these formatting characters? Secondly, does anyone know what those strange charcters I described are? I have posted the document at: http://www.ceanational.org/problem/wordcharacters.doc Thanks for any assistance. Therm |
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Strange formatting marks
Those are end-of-cell and end-of-row markers. For more, see:
What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... I recieved a Word docuement from a co-worker. It contained some very strange formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines. I have no idea what they are. The help screens don't help. So, my first question is: Where is the documentation for all these formatting characters? Secondly, does anyone know what those strange charcters I described are? I have posted the document at: http://www.ceanational.org/problem/wordcharacters.doc Thanks for any assistance. Therm |
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Moreover, if you zoom in, you'll see that they are really more like circles
with "ears." The character used is U00A4 (ASCII 0164), the "universal monetary symbol." -- 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. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Those are end-of-cell and end-of-row markers. For more, see: What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... I recieved a Word docuement from a co-worker. It contained some very strange formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines. I have no idea what they are. The help screens don't help. So, my first question is: Where is the documentation for all these formatting characters? Secondly, does anyone know what those strange charcters I described are? I have posted the document at: http://www.ceanational.org/problem/wordcharacters.doc Thanks for any assistance. Therm |
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Stefan,
Thank you for the response, but I do not think those are the characteres I am referring to. In addition, Suzanne agreed with your response and said "The character used is U00A4 (ASCII 0164.)" That is not the character I am trying to understand. The formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines, not the ASCII 0164 character. If you have a moment, take a look at my file. Thanks. Therm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stefan Blom wrote: Those are end-of-cell and end-of-row markers. For more, see: What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... I recieved a Word docuement from a co-worker. It contained some very strange formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines. I have no idea what they are. The help screens don't help. So, my first question is: Where is the documentation for all these formatting characters? Secondly, does anyone know what those strange charcters I described are? I have posted the document at: http://www.ceanational.org/problem/wordcharacters.doc Thanks for any assistance. Therm |
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I assumed from Stefan's response that he HAD looked at your document. And in
fact I have just looked at it, and the only characters I see that begin to answer your description are the end-of-cell and end-of-row markers. They tend to look different at various Zoom ratios, but if you will view your document at 500% Zoom, you will see that they are the character we describe. The display of some of them is truncated because you have nested tables. I'm guessing this must be something you pasted from the Web, as it is otherwise unusual to see this many levels of nesting (all quite unnecessary). -- 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. "Therm" wrote in message ups.com... Stefan, Thank you for the response, but I do not think those are the characteres I am referring to. In addition, Suzanne agreed with your response and said "The character used is U00A4 (ASCII 0164.)" That is not the character I am trying to understand. The formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines, not the ASCII 0164 character. If you have a moment, take a look at my file. Thanks. Therm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stefan Blom wrote: Those are end-of-cell and end-of-row markers. For more, see: What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... I recieved a Word docuement from a co-worker. It contained some very strange formatting marks like the letter "C" with little lines sticking out and a partial "C" with the same little lines. I have no idea what they are. The help screens don't help. So, my first question is: Where is the documentation for all these formatting characters? Secondly, does anyone know what those strange charcters I described are? I have posted the document at: http://www.ceanational.org/problem/wordcharacters.doc Thanks for any assistance. Therm |
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Hi Therm
Therm wrote: Thank you for the response, but I do not think those are the characteres I am referring to. But they are. My first assumption was that you are using a font which uses (slightly) different characters for those marks. [I once had to work with a CI font where the end-of-cell marker was indistinguishable from a small letter "G" -- very annoying!!!] In your case, though, they look like a "C" beceause they cut into the right side (text boundaries visible under Tools | Options | View?). HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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