If the character appears as a "(" in the Find Dialog when selected, it is a
character from a Symbol Font and you may find this helpful:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.htm

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Yes, please send a sample. But one last grasp at a straw. Is this bullet
by
chance square and in the margin? If so, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

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Words into Type
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"86Ranger" wrote in message
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Suzanne,
Thanks for working with me on this. Although your reply is not the
solution,
I have another clue. When I selected one of the bullets and typed Alt+X,
nothing happened. So I tried inserting a new symbol and using Alt+X just
to
verify I was using the Alt+X correctly. I was. So that would indicate
that
the bullet I am trying to find is not a symbol. So the question becomes,
what
is that little bullet? Is there anyway I can send you an example?
By the way, I have learned a lot (albeit not a solution to my concern)
from
your replies. thank you

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you can actually select the bullets (as opposed to selecting the
entire
column of bullets when you click on one in recent versions of Word),
then
you can use Alt+X to get the Unicode character code (Word 2002 and
2003).
You can then search for ^Unnnn or ^unnnn (supposedly; I'm having
difficulty
making either of these work).

Aha, it turns out that you have to enter the *decimal* value of the
Unicode
character, which Word's Symbol dialog provides only as hex. sigh And
although Word's help quotes ^Unnnn, the capital U generates an error
message. Luckily, you can use the Windows calculator to convert hex
values
to decimal.

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Words into Type
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"86Ranger" wrote in message
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Wicked cool! I didn't know I could do that. Its not really a
solution
for
deleting my thousands of bullets, but it is a neat little trick I
didn't
know
before. Thank you.

I still would really benefit from knowing how to search out and
destroy
these little beggers with the Find Replace option.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If the bulleted paragraphs have a hanging indent, you could use
column-select (Alt+drag) to select the bullets and delete.

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Words into Type
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"86Ranger" wrote in message
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When converting documents from WordPerfect to MSWord, bullet
characters
are
carried over. These characters are not associated with a bullet
style
and
I
need to delete them. These bullet characters seem to be symbols,
but I
can't
find and replace them. I have tried using the ^nnn and ^0nnn and
^unnn
seach
codes, but I am having no luck.