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Find and Replace unwanted symbol
Dear all,
I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you |
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If I could I would upload the two sentences (in the picture above) in
original MS Word format somewhere so anyone interested could look at it. Does anyone know how I can do this? "Uddhava" wrote: Dear all, I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you |
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Select the symbol in question and press Alt+X. What is the result? The
number you get is the Unicode number for the character in question. Also, does the font you are using contain character F001 (the fi ligature)? Calibri and Cambria, the two default fonts in Word 2007, do not, whereas Times New Roman and Arial do. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Uddhava" wrote in message ... Dear all, I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you |
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Dear Suzanne,
Thanks for your help. When I select the letter d and then alt+x, the d is replaced with 0064. but when I do the same with this symbol, there is no change, the symbol remains. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Select the symbol in question and press Alt+X. What is the result? The number you get is the Unicode number for the character in question. Also, does the font you are using contain character F001 (the fi ligature)? Calibri and Cambria, the two default fonts in Word 2007, do not, whereas Times New Roman and Arial do. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Uddhava" wrote in message ... Dear all, I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you . |
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That suggests it's gotten converted to a Symbol font character, and
those don't have Unicode codes. Can you go back to the program in which the document was created, and Find/Replace all the fi characters to the f i sequence? (Does the same thing happen with fl and ff?) On Feb 28, 8:44*pm, Uddhava wrote: Dear Suzanne, Thanks for your help. When I select the letter d and then alt+x, the d is replaced with 0064. but when I do the same with this symbol, there is no change, the symbol remains. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Select the symbol in question and press Alt+X. What is the result? The number you get is the Unicode number for the character in question. Also, does the font you are using contain character F001 (the fi ligature)? Calibri and Cambria, the two default fonts in Word 2007, do not, whereas Times New Roman and Arial do. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Uddhava" wrote in message ... Dear all, I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word *document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you |
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Dear Peter,
Thanks for your help. In my word document most or all apostrophes are also replaced by the same symbol above, while FL is replaced by the same symbol except upside down ie pointing upwards, and FF is rendered correctly. The text comes from a PDF which I did not create. The main font in this pdf is Baskerville MT and when I paste the text into MS Word the Word font says 'Baskerville MT'. However Baskerville MT does not appear in Word's list of fonts (the closest is Baskerville Old Face). So maybe I need to install Baskerville MT to MS Word. Otherwise I could try to change the font on the PDF document (using Adobe Acrobat etc) before copying it to Word. Any suggestions? Thanks "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: That suggests it's gotten converted to a Symbol font character, and those don't have Unicode codes. Can you go back to the program in which the document was created, and Find/Replace all the fi characters to the f i sequence? (Does the same thing happen with fl and ff?) On Feb 28, 8:44 pm, Uddhava wrote: Dear Suzanne, Thanks for your help. When I select the letter d and then alt+x, the d is replaced with 0064. but when I do the same with this symbol, there is no change, the symbol remains. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Select the symbol in question and press Alt+X. What is the result? The number you get is the Unicode number for the character in question. Also, does the font you are using contain character F001 (the fi ligature)? Calibri and Cambria, the two default fonts in Word 2007, do not, whereas Times New Roman and Arial do. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Uddhava" wrote in message ... Dear all, I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you . |
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Word doesn't automatically do the f- ligature substitutions, so it may
be that your Baskerville font doesn't include the ligatures at all. (The sample you posted clearly isn't in any form of Baskerville.) Have you tried changing the font overall in your Word document (to something standard like Times New Roman)? Somewhere in your Options (you seem not to have said what version of Word you have) you will find something called "Font Substititution." It will tell you what font Word is using when it encounters a font not installed on your computer. (The original name still shows up, but the characters come from the substitute font.) If the font doesn't have curly-quotes, it may be a free imitation of a real font. Or, the original document may have been created in WordPerfect, which has its own private fonts that (still!) don't use Unicode encoding, and you'll only be able to convert its "mistakes" one by one. On Mar 1, 6:57*am, Uddhava wrote: Dear Peter, Thanks for your help. In my word document most or all apostrophes are also replaced by the same symbol above, while FL is replaced by the same symbol except upside down ie pointing upwards, and FF is rendered correctly. The text comes from a PDF which I did not create. The main font in this pdf is Baskerville MT and when I paste the text into MS Word the Word font says 'Baskerville MT'. However Baskerville MT does not appear in Word's list of fonts (the closest is Baskerville Old Face). So maybe I need to install Baskerville MT to MS Word. Otherwise I could try to change the font on the PDF document (using Adobe Acrobat etc) before copying it to Word. Any suggestions? Thanks "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: That suggests it's gotten converted to a Symbol font character, and those don't have Unicode codes. Can you go back to the program in which the document was created, and Find/Replace all the fi characters to the f i sequence? (Does the same thing happen with fl and ff?) On Feb 28, 8:44 pm, Uddhava wrote: Dear Suzanne, Thanks for your help. When I select the letter d and then alt+x, the d is replaced with 0064. but when I do the same with this symbol, there is no change, the symbol remains. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Select the symbol in question and press Alt+X. What is the result? The number you get is the Unicode number for the character in question. Also, does the font you are using contain character F001 (the fi ligature)? Calibri and Cambria, the two default fonts in Word 2007, do not, whereas Times New Roman and Arial do. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Uddhava" wrote in message ... Dear all, I copied some text from a pdf document to Word 2007. but some text has come out a bit garbled. For example instead of fi, I get this strange symbol (see attached pic). http://tinyurl.com/ylzgbjn So of course I want to find and replace this symbol with 'fi'. If I copy this symbol I can paste it elsewhere in my Word *document. However if I copy and paste this symbol into the 'Find and Replace' box it just comes out as a blank space and will then replaces all blank spaces, which of course is not what I want. Also if I paste this symbol into this text box where I am typing now it also comes out as a blank space. So is there any way to Find and Replace this symbol? (By the way I have had the same problem before with various different symbols. ) Thank you |
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