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Removing special characters from previous file formats
I am converting an old collection of recipes from files which were set in
Ventura text format. Word read the files and converts them to Windows format and displays them fine but it also adds a lot of extra non-alphanumeric characters and symbols which Find and Replace will not recognise such as small squares. is there any way of getting the replace function to recognise these characters? -- NS |
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Removing special characters from previous file formats
Have you tried copying one of the squares to the clipboard, then pasting it
into the Find what: field? Even though they look like squares, often, Word differentiates them nonetheless, and can find them. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Nigel S" wrote in message ... I am converting an old collection of recipes from files which were set in Ventura text format. Word read the files and converts them to Windows format and displays them fine but it also adds a lot of extra non-alphanumeric characters and symbols which Find and Replace will not recognise such as small squares. is there any way of getting the replace function to recognise these characters? -- NS |
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