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Terry,
I tried out your suggestion and it works. But I would rather not have the new character in "symbol" font. Let me explain: When I use a greek symbol, I obtain it through Insert - Symbol. When I do that, the inserted symbol 'alpha' has the same font as the rest of the text, in my case Times New Roman. That is, when you highlight it, then go to Format - Font, you see that it's Time New Roman. I want to keep it that way, i.e. when I replace the word "discount" with the sign 'beta', I don't want the 'beta' to be in Symbol font. Why do I care about that as long as the appearance is right? Because my document has some titles, emphases, etc. in Arial. So when I highlight a text and change that to Times New Roman or Arial, I want the 'alpha' withn the highlighted text to remain an 'alpha'. Which I can do when I directly insert it through Insert - Symbol, but not when I bring it in through F&R using your method. Is there a way to retain the "Times New Roman" font of the greek symbols in doing F&R?? "TF" wrote: The Greek Symbols you are replacing are in a different symbol font: so the replace text is actually using characters that don't have anything assigned in the Symbol Font: hence the little square box. What you need to do is click on the MORE button in the F&R dialog and from the Format list, assign the correct font to the replace text. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Tewodaj" wrote in message ... : Hi, : I am using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I have been trying, so far : unsuccessfully, to use the "Find and Replace" tool to replace greek symbols : with other greek symbols in my text (e.g. alpha, etc.). I have managed to : find symbols by copying and pasting the symbol into the Find What box. But : when I try to replace something, say the word "discount factor" with the : symbol for 'beta' by pasting the symbol into the Replace box, "discount : factor" instead gets replaced with a little square box. How can I address : this problem? Is it at all adressable in Word 2002? A little warning: I've : never written word or excel macros so am not familiar with doing my own : programming in such applications, so I would much prefer a menu driven : solution. |
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