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Looking for missing symbol
Occasionally, when I copy/paste some text, the 'Enter' character takes the
form of a symbol like the hands of a clock at 9:00 PM, with the end of the hour hand taking the form of a small arrow. I'd like to be able to Find/Replace these characters, except I can't find out what the symbol is, and I don't see how to get it into the Find window. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thx Dave |
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I suspect you're describing a line break. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. You can replace line breaks with paragraph breaks by replacing ^l (that's a lowercase L) with ^p. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Dave" wrote in message ... Occasionally, when I copy/paste some text, the 'Enter' character takes the form of a symbol like the hands of a clock at 9:00 PM, with the end of the hour hand taking the form of a small arrow. I'd like to be able to Find/Replace these characters, except I can't find out what the symbol is, and I don't see how to get it into the Find window. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thx Dave |
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To: Dave,
The Clock at nine oclock symbol is part of the Wingdings character set with an ASCII value of 191 (which is an upside down question mark in normal text). The bigger question, is how does it come to appear in your text when you copy/paste? -Steven Craig Miller "Dave" wrote: Occasionally, when I copy/paste some text, the 'Enter' character takes the form of a symbol like the hands of a clock at 9:00 PM, with the end of the hour hand taking the form of a small arrow. I'd like to be able to Find/Replace these characters, except I can't find out what the symbol is, and I don't see how to get it into the Find window. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thx Dave |
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Thanks everybody-
Steve - don't really know how these things come - as I said, sometimes when I copy/paste (probably from a web page, but I'm not sure that is the only time) it just 'happens' And thank you also Ms. Barnhill , right on target as always. Much appreciate the help Dave "StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message ... To: Dave, The Clock at nine o'clock symbol is part of the Wingdings character set with an ASCII value of 191 (which is an upside down question mark in normal text). The bigger question, is how does it come to appear in your text when you copy/paste? -Steven Craig Miller "Dave" wrote: Occasionally, when I copy/paste some text, the 'Enter' character takes the form of a symbol like the hands of a clock at 9:00 PM, with the end of the hour hand taking the form of a small arrow. I'd like to be able to Find/Replace these characters, except I can't find out what the symbol is, and I don't see how to get it into the Find window. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thx Dave |
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When you're pasting from Web pages, you're much more likely to get line
breaks because HTML seems to convert a paragraph break into two line breaks. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks everybody- Steve - don't really know how these things come - as I said, sometimes when I copy/paste (probably from a web page, but I'm not sure that is the only time) it just 'happens' And thank you also Ms. Barnhill , right on target as always. Much appreciate the help Dave "StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message ... To: Dave, The Clock at nine o'clock symbol is part of the Wingdings character set with an ASCII value of 191 (which is an upside down question mark in normal text). The bigger question, is how does it come to appear in your text when you copy/paste? -Steven Craig Miller "Dave" wrote: Occasionally, when I copy/paste some text, the 'Enter' character takes the form of a symbol like the hands of a clock at 9:00 PM, with the end of the hour hand taking the form of a small arrow. I'd like to be able to Find/Replace these characters, except I can't find out what the symbol is, and I don't see how to get it into the Find window. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thx Dave |
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So noted -
Thx again Dave "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... When you're pasting from Web pages, you're much more likely to get line breaks because HTML seems to convert a paragraph break into two line breaks. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks everybody- Steve - don't really know how these things come - as I said, sometimes when I copy/paste (probably from a web page, but I'm not sure that is the only time) it just 'happens' And thank you also Ms. Barnhill , right on target as always. Much appreciate the help Dave "StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message ... To: Dave, The Clock at nine o'clock symbol is part of the Wingdings character set with an ASCII value of 191 (which is an upside down question mark in normal text). The bigger question, is how does it come to appear in your text when you copy/paste? -Steven Craig Miller "Dave" wrote: Occasionally, when I copy/paste some text, the 'Enter' character takes the form of a symbol like the hands of a clock at 9:00 PM, with the end of the hour hand taking the form of a small arrow. I'd like to be able to Find/Replace these characters, except I can't find out what the symbol is, and I don't see how to get it into the Find window. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thx Dave |
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