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Find and Replace degree symbol
When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to
be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find and Replace. |
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Find and Replace degree symbol
Copy it from the body of the document and paste it into the Find box.
You can enter a degree symbol using Alt-0176, but the character you are seeing might well be something else. "rjgreer" wrote in message ... When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find and Replace. |
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Find and Replace degree symbol
What you're seeing is Word's representation of a nonbreaking space. HTML
doesn't respect multiple ordinary spaces; it just treats all strings of spaces as a single space unless the additional ones are nonbreaking spaces. Consequently, people who want two spaces between sentences, for example, have to use one nonbreaking space. Word documents pasted to the Web do this automatically (and tab characters are also converted to strings of nonbreaking spaces). For more on the representation of nonprinting characters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- 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. "rjgreer" wrote in message ... When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find and Replace. |
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Find and Replace degree symbol
Unless you specifically want to preserve the fonts and formatting you are
copying, you can avoid all the strange characters by using Paste Special, and selecting text or unformatted text. "rjgreer" wrote in message ... When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find and Replace. |
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Find and Replace degree symbol
Thanks for your reply. I looked at the document you referred to, and found
that by entering Ctrtl-Shift-Spacebar into the Find What space, the symbol showed up, and by putting nothing in the Replace With space, it got rid of all the symbols. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you're seeing is Word's representation of a nonbreaking space. HTML doesn't respect multiple ordinary spaces; it just treats all strings of spaces as a single space unless the additional ones are nonbreaking spaces. Consequently, people who want two spaces between sentences, for example, have to use one nonbreaking space. Word documents pasted to the Web do this automatically (and tab characters are also converted to strings of nonbreaking spaces). For more on the representation of nonprinting characters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- 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. "rjgreer" wrote in message ... When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find and Replace. |
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Find and Replace degree symbol
That's one way; you can also search for ^s (Word's code for a nonbreaking
space). -- 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. "rjgreer" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply. I looked at the document you referred to, and found that by entering Ctrtl-Shift-Spacebar into the Find What space, the symbol showed up, and by putting nothing in the Replace With space, it got rid of all the symbols. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you're seeing is Word's representation of a nonbreaking space. HTML doesn't respect multiple ordinary spaces; it just treats all strings of spaces as a single space unless the additional ones are nonbreaking spaces. Consequently, people who want two spaces between sentences, for example, have to use one nonbreaking space. Word documents pasted to the Web do this automatically (and tab characters are also converted to strings of nonbreaking spaces). For more on the representation of nonprinting characters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- 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. "rjgreer" wrote in message ... When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find and Replace. |
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