I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word
isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace
screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.
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akkrug

I found the optional hyphen under the find and replace special tab, but how
do I delete the hyphen as opposed to replacing it with some other character?

Thanks.
--
akkrug


"akkrug" wrote:

I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word
isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace
screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.
--
akkrug

Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed
characters - search for ^l

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


akkrug wrote:
I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is
hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on
its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into
the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate
the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.

Looks like replacing the optional hyphen with shift delete works ok.

Thanks.

Ken K.
--
akkrug


"akkrug" wrote:

I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word
isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace
screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.
--
akkrug

No, they're conditional hyphens: ¬ (Unicode 00AC).

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Words into Type
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed
characters - search for ^l

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


akkrug wrote:
I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is
hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on
its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into
the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate
the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.

Hi Kenneth,

What does Shift Delete do? That's a new one to me.

You can replace the ¬ (^- in "Find what") with nothing (in "Replace with").

Greetings,
Klaus


"akkrug" wrote:
Looks like replacing the optional hyphen with shift delete works ok.

Thanks.

Ken K.
--
akkrug


"akkrug" wrote:

I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is
hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word
isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace
screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.
--
akkrug

I spotted that - this is what comes from working off line - the suggestions
are often superseded by events

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
No, they're conditional hyphens: ¬ (Unicode 00AC).


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed
characters - search for ^l

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


akkrug wrote:
I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is
hyphenated with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L
on its side. Word isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L
into the find or replace screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to
locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.

I don't know why the conditional hyphens can't be deleted normally, but
Shift+Delete does a Cut, so sometimes appears to effect a slightly different
deletion from just pressing Delete - for example a selected row in a table
will be removed (to the clipboard) rather than just emptied of content.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Klaus Linke" wrote in message
...
Hi Kenneth,

What does Shift Delete do? That's a new one to me.

You can replace the ¬ (^- in "Find what") with nothing (in "Replace
with").

Greetings,
Klaus


"akkrug" wrote:
Looks like replacing the optional hyphen with shift delete works ok.

Thanks.

Ken K.
--
akkrug


"akkrug" wrote:

I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is
hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side.
Word
isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace
screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.
--
akkrug