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hidden special characters
**there is a hidden special charater the look somewhat like a hyphen but
perhaps more like the litter "L' rotated to the left and then flip upside down. A straight line with another short vertical line going down from the right end. What is this character? What does it do? |
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Alan.
Can't say, but you might find it he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Alan Smithee Jr. wrote: **there is a hidden special charater the look somewhat like a hyphen but perhaps more like the litter "L' rotated to the left and then flip upside down. A straight line with another short vertical line going down from the right end. What is this character? What does it do? |
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and...searching for this character in the document doesn't work. cut/pasting
into the search dialogue yeilds no results even though I have a document with many of these characters. btw...this document was produced by scanning text and they seem to be hypens of breaking syllables in words at the right side of the page ** |
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Thanks for the reply, Greg. No...nothing like it in that web page.
What's rather annoying is that I can search/find it or search/replace it with nothing to delete them all in one go. |
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E-mail it to me and I will try to find out what it is. No macros please.
cut the CAPS from the address below. RrOMEORgOLF -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Alan Smithee Jr. wrote: Thanks for the reply, Greg. No...nothing like it in that web page. What's rather annoying is that I can search/find it or search/replace it with nothing to delete them all in one go. |
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Got your file.
They are optional hyphens. EditReplaceMoreSpecial. Click on the optional hyphen symbol ^- to insert it in the find what field. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. "Alan Smithee Jr." wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply, Greg. No...nothing like it in that web page. What's rather annoying is that I can search/find it or search/replace it with nothing to delete them all in one go. |
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It's an "optional hyphen". If a word is close to the end of a line, that
hyphenation point will be used. Otherwise, optional hyphens are hidden and don't show up when the document is printed. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Alan Smithee Jr." wrote in message ... **there is a hidden special charater the look somewhat like a hyphen but perhaps more like the litter "L' rotated to the left and then flip upside down. A straight line with another short vertical line going down from the right end. What is this character? What does it do? |
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If you didn't find it on that page, you weren't looking hard enough. From
the article: "A conditional hyphen (one that is printed only if it falls at a line break, entered with Ctrl+Hyphen) is shown as ¬." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Alan Smithee Jr." wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply, Greg. No...nothing like it in that web page. What's rather annoying is that I can search/find it or search/replace it with nothing to delete them all in one go. |
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Ooops. Sorry. Yes....I see it there now.
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Still seems odd, thought, that selecting...copying...pasting that character
into Search Dialogue doesn't produce any found characters. |
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:13:30 -0800 from Alan Smithee Jr.
: **there is a hidden special charater the look somewhat like a hyphen but perhaps more like the litter "L' rotated to the left and then flip upside down. A straight line with another short vertical line going down from the right end. What is this character? What does it do? It sounds like the logical "not". I don't know what you mean by "hidden"; it's Alt+0172. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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You have to search for ^-. That's the code for "Optional Hyphen," as found
in the Special menu in the Find dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Alan Smithee Jr." wrote in message ... Still seems odd, thought, that selecting...copying...pasting that character into Search Dialogue doesn't produce any found characters. |
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