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Hyphen character
I copy/pasted an article from the web, and it contains many extraneous
characters that look like hyphens. I tried to eliminate these characters using find/replace in Word, but apparently Word does not recognize them (tried the keyboard hyphen and all the characters listed under Special). How do I determine what these characters are, so I can delete them? Thanks! -- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ....WC Fields |
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Hyphen character
Did you try copy/paste the symbol into the Find/Replace dialog? (Note you
must use keyboard commands in the F&R dialog). -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Steve" wrote in message ... I copy/pasted an article from the web, and it contains many extraneous characters that look like hyphens. I tried to eliminate these characters using find/replace in Word, but apparently Word does not recognize them (tried the keyboard hyphen and all the characters listed under Special). How do I determine what these characters are, so I can delete them? Thanks! -- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ...WC Fields |
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Hyphen character
"Terry Farrell" wrote:
I copy/pasted an article from the web, and it contains many extraneous characters that look like hyphens. I tried to eliminate these characters using find/replace in Word, but apparently Word does not recognize them (tried the keyboard hyphen and all the characters listed under Special). How do I determine what these characters are, so I can delete them? Did you try copy/paste the symbol into the Find/Replace dialog? (Note you must use keyboard commands in the F&R dialog). Well, duh, you'd think that would be the first thing I tried, but I never thought of it. And it worked, thanks! It's a small dash that appears in front of lots of words, like this: *program Interestingly, it does not appear in the original article - it appears only after I copy/paste. Must be some sorta hex symbol? -- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ....WC Fields |
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