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How to replace or delete foreign characters
Dear all,
I have copied some text from the web http://www.brillonline.nl/public/iman which includes some words transliterated from Arabic. These words include a few characters outside those used by my keyboard. One of these characters is a kind of apostrophe in the web original but is rendered in Word as a rectangular block. I can't even show you here because when I paste the block from Word it appears in this text box as an apostrophe (as intended in the original). There are hundreds of these rectangular characters scattered throughout my document. I would like to either replace them with an apostrophe or just delete them. I can't use 'Find and Replace' to do this because when it asks me what I am looking for, my keyboard is not able to type it! Any suggestions? Thank you |
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How to replace or delete foreign characters
You might try selecting the character and opening the Find dialog; you may
find it already in the "Find what" box; if not, use Ctrl+C to copy it and Ctrl+V to paste it into the Find dialog. See also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.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. "Uddhava" wrote in message news Dear all, I have copied some text from the web http://www.brillonline.nl/public/iman which includes some words transliterated from Arabic. These words include a few characters outside those used by my keyboard. One of these characters is a kind of apostrophe in the web original but is rendered in Word as a rectangular block. I can't even show you here because when I paste the block from Word it appears in this text box as an apostrophe (as intended in the original). There are hundreds of these rectangular characters scattered throughout my document. I would like to either replace them with an apostrophe or just delete them. I can't use 'Find and Replace' to do this because when it asks me what I am looking for, my keyboard is not able to type it! Any suggestions? Thank you |
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