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September 26th 07, 05:12 PM
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How to detect symbol/special character code.
I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or replace with
something else. Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or special character to use for "Search and Replace"? 
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September 26th 07, 05:19 PM
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How to detect symbol/special character code.
Usually, if you copy one of the target characters to the clipboard, you can
paste it into the Find what: field and it will work just fine. Many special characters can also be inserted into Find what: or Replace with: by clicking the More button in the Find and Replace dialog box, and then clicking Special. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or replace with something else. Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or special character to use for "Search and Replace"?
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September 26th 07, 05:32 PM
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How to detect symbol/special character code.
Thanks for the post Herb.
I use your suggestion below when it works... but I sometimes run across symbols that do copy/paste into the search/replace boxes. And in the case I ran across this morning I could not find a specific symbol in the "special characters' box... (which I do not find in Excel by the way... only in Word). The character looked like a little squre box... but the sides were either missing or very faint... sort of like a square bullet but it was something else. jeff "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Usually, if you copy one of the target characters to the clipboard, you can paste it into the Find what: field and it will work just fine. Many special characters can also be inserted into Find what: or Replace with: by clicking the More button in the Find and Replace dialog box, and then clicking Special. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or replace with something else. Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or special character to use for "Search and Replace"?
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September 26th 07, 06:30 PM
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How to detect symbol/special character code.
If you know the character code for it, you can search using ^[character
code] (e.g., ^0124). If you don't have any idea how it was inserted and if it doesn't survive pasting, then it's hard to know what to tell you. You might try looking at the Insert Symbol offerings to see if you can figure out what the character code for it is. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... Thanks for the post Herb. I use your suggestion below when it works... but I sometimes run across symbols that do copy/paste into the search/replace boxes. And in the case I ran across this morning I could not find a specific symbol in the "special characters' box... (which I do not find in Excel by the way... only in Word). The character looked like a little squre box... but the sides were either missing or very faint... sort of like a square bullet but it was something else. jeff "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Usually, if you copy one of the target characters to the clipboard, you can paste it into the Find what: field and it will work just fine. Many special characters can also be inserted into Find what: or Replace with: by clicking the More button in the Find and Replace dialog box, and then clicking Special. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or replace with something else. Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or special character to use for "Search and Replace"?
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September 26th 07, 06:48 PM
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How to detect symbol/special character code.
Thanks Herb...
Another poster suggested I use the "Code=" function to get the number for the code I want to replace. The number returned is 13. But when I enter "^013" in the replace box and hit replace... I get a message saying Excel cannot find any data to replace. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you know the character code for it, you can search using ^[character code] (e.g., ^0124). If you don't have any idea how it was inserted and if it doesn't survive pasting, then it's hard to know what to tell you. You might try looking at the Insert Symbol offerings to see if you can figure out what the character code for it is. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... Thanks for the post Herb. I use your suggestion below when it works... but I sometimes run across symbols that do copy/paste into the search/replace boxes. And in the case I ran across this morning I could not find a specific symbol in the "special characters' box... (which I do not find in Excel by the way... only in Word). The character looked like a little squre box... but the sides were either missing or very faint... sort of like a square bullet but it was something else. jeff "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Usually, if you copy one of the target characters to the clipboard, you can paste it into the Find what: field and it will work just fine. Many special characters can also be inserted into Find what: or Replace with: by clicking the More button in the Find and Replace dialog box, and then clicking Special. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or replace with something else. Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or special character to use for "Search and Replace"?
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September 26th 07, 09:19 PM
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How to detect symbol/special character code.
Excel's Find/Replace works differently... Usually ^013 would correspond to a
paragraph break. =Code(cell address) returns the code only of the first character in a string. So, it would find the code for the odd character only if it were the only or first characer in the cell. If you can put just that character into a cell and then evaluation it, you can try searching. Let's say the code is "114". Rather than searching for ^114, click in Find what:, turn NumLock on, hold down the Alt key, and type 114 (on the number pad). It will insert the character that corresponds to that code (and it might look differently, since font formatting isn't performed in the Find what: text field, so you'll likely see the ANSI/ASCII character from the basic set. If this techniques works within Excel, you might try pasting the mystery character(s) from Word into Excel, using CODE to determine the value, and then try either ^code or the Alt+entry method for inserting it into Word's Find what: box. If this doesn't get you what you want, you might try microsoft.public.excel.misc or one of the other Excel groups. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... Thanks Herb... Another poster suggested I use the "Code=" function to get the number for the code I want to replace. The number returned is 13. But when I enter "^013" in the replace box and hit replace... I get a message saying Excel cannot find any data to replace. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you know the character code for it, you can search using ^[character code] (e.g., ^0124). If you don't have any idea how it was inserted and if it doesn't survive pasting, then it's hard to know what to tell you. You might try looking at the Insert Symbol offerings to see if you can figure out what the character code for it is. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... Thanks for the post Herb. I use your suggestion below when it works... but I sometimes run across symbols that do copy/paste into the search/replace boxes. And in the case I ran across this morning I could not find a specific symbol in the "special characters' box... (which I do not find in Excel by the way... only in Word). The character looked like a little squre box... but the sides were either missing or very faint... sort of like a square bullet but it was something else. jeff "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Usually, if you copy one of the target characters to the clipboard, you can paste it into the Find what: field and it will work just fine. Many special characters can also be inserted into Find what: or Replace with: by clicking the More button in the Find and Replace dialog box, and then clicking Special. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jeff Ingman" wrote in message ... I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or replace with something else. Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or special character to use for "Search and Replace"?
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