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Thanks to the help of people in this newsgroup, I've been able to solve one
problem I had. I frequently want to replace a symbol from Japanese fonts: $B!n(B with the equivalent in Century or other western fonts, which is $B!k(BC (a degree sign followed by capital C for "degrees centigrade"). I had always been troubled by how to get the degree sign into the "replace with" box but thanks to the posters on this newsgroup I learnt that I could use control-v to paste into the box and do a global replace of all the Japanese symbols. This, however, left me with another problem. The Japanese symbol was replaced by the degree sign, $B!k(B, but unfortunately the degree sign was still in the Japanese font. I know from various trials that the degree sign is in most of the common fonts on Word, so it is not a problem with the font not being available. Can anyone tell me how to change the degree sign into the Western font automatically? Thank you very much for any suggestions or help with this one. |
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If you click on More in the Find and Replace dialog, you will see a little
Format drop down menu. With the cursor in the appropriate box, you can use that Format menu to also set a font for the replace text. On 3/13/06 5:46 PM, "Ben K. Bullock" wrote: Thanks to the help of people in this newsgroup, I've been able to solve one problem I had. I frequently want to replace a symbol from Japanese fonts: $B!n(B with the equivalent in Century or other western fonts, which is $B!k(BC (a degree sign followed by capital C for "degrees centigrade"). I had always been troubled by how to get the degree sign into the "replace with" box but thanks to the posters on this newsgroup I learnt that I could use control-v to paste into the box and do a global replace of all the Japanese symbols. This, however, left me with another problem. The Japanese symbol was replaced by the degree sign, $B!k(B, but unfortunately the degree sign was still in the Japanese font. I know from various trials that the degree sign is in most of the common fonts on Word, so it is not a problem with the font not being available. Can anyone tell me how to change the degree sign into the Western font automatically? Thank you very much for any suggestions or help with this one. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. . If you click on More in the Find and Replace dialog, you will see a little Format drop down menu. With the cursor in the appropriate box, you can use that Format menu to also set a font for the replace text. Thanks Daiya, I tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I set the replacement text font to "Century" and the original is in something called MS Mincho, but I still can't get it to change the font. If it is in Century it stays that way, and if it is in MS Mincho it stays as MS Mincho. Perhaps I'll have to try the Japanese language newsgroup to find out what is happening. Thank you again for the help. On 3/13/06 5:46 PM, "Ben K. Bullock" wrote: Thanks to the help of people in this newsgroup, I've been able to solve one problem I had. I frequently want to replace a symbol from Japanese fonts: $B!n(B with the equivalent in Century or other western fonts, which is $B!k(BC (a degree sign followed by capital C for "degrees centigrade"). I had always been troubled by how to get the degree sign into the "replace with" box but thanks to the posters on this newsgroup I learnt that I could use control-v to paste into the box and do a global replace of all the Japanese symbols. This, however, left me with another problem. The Japanese symbol was replaced by the degree sign, $B!k(B, but unfortunately the degree sign was still in the Japanese font. I know from various trials that the degree sign is in most of the common fonts on Word, so it is not a problem with the font not being available. Can anyone tell me how to change the degree sign into the Western font automatically? Thank you very much for any suggestions or help with this one. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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MS Mincho is very invasive. I have shortcuts for several symbols that have
been defined as "(normal text)" and are present in all the fonts I use, yet they tend to revert to MS Mincho when my back is turned. And apparently en and em spaces are always (covertly) MS Mincho. -- 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. "Ben K. Bullock" wrote in message ... "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . If you click on More in the Find and Replace dialog, you will see a little Format drop down menu. With the cursor in the appropriate box, you can use that Format menu to also set a font for the replace text. Thanks Daiya, I tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I set the replacement text font to "Century" and the original is in something called MS Mincho, but I still can't get it to change the font. If it is in Century it stays that way, and if it is in MS Mincho it stays as MS Mincho. Perhaps I'll have to try the Japanese language newsgroup to find out what is happening. Thank you again for the help. On 3/13/06 5:46 PM, "Ben K. Bullock" wrote: Thanks to the help of people in this newsgroup, I've been able to solve one problem I had. I frequently want to replace a symbol from Japanese fonts: ? with the equivalent in Century or other western fonts, which is °C (a degree sign followed by capital C for "degrees centigrade"). I had always been troubled by how to get the degree sign into the "replace with" box but thanks to the posters on this newsgroup I learnt that I could use control-v to paste into the box and do a global replace of all the Japanese symbols. This, however, left me with another problem. The Japanese symbol was replaced by the degree sign, °, but unfortunately the degree sign was still in the Japanese font. I know from various trials that the degree sign is in most of the common fonts on Word, so it is not a problem with the font not being available. Can anyone tell me how to change the degree sign into the Western font automatically? Thank you very much for any suggestions or help with this one. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Really? I didn't know MS Mincho was even present on the English version of
Word. The problem is that the MS Mincho degree symbol and the other one look totally different. The Mincho one has a great big piece of whitespace after it. I solved the problem by doing a "search" for °, selecting everything that was searched for, and then doing a global font change on the selection, which was quite a good work around. Unfortunately I can't work out how to make that into a macro; see my enquiry in the visual basic group. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... MS Mincho is very invasive. I have shortcuts for several symbols that have been defined as "(normal text)" and are present in all the fonts I use, yet they tend to revert to MS Mincho when my back is turned. And apparently en and em spaces are always (covertly) MS Mincho. -- 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. "Ben K. Bullock" wrote in message ... "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . If you click on More in the Find and Replace dialog, you will see a little Format drop down menu. With the cursor in the appropriate box, you can use that Format menu to also set a font for the replace text. Thanks Daiya, I tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I set the replacement text font to "Century" and the original is in something called MS Mincho, but I still can't get it to change the font. If it is in Century it stays that way, and if it is in MS Mincho it stays as MS Mincho. Perhaps I'll have to try the Japanese language newsgroup to find out what is happening. Thank you again for the help. On 3/13/06 5:46 PM, "Ben K. Bullock" wrote: Thanks to the help of people in this newsgroup, I've been able to solve one problem I had. I frequently want to replace a symbol from Japanese fonts: ? with the equivalent in Century or other western fonts, which is °C (a degree sign followed by capital C for "degrees centigrade"). I had always been troubled by how to get the degree sign into the "replace with" box but thanks to the posters on this newsgroup I learnt that I could use control-v to paste into the box and do a global replace of all the Japanese symbols. This, however, left me with another problem. The Japanese symbol was replaced by the degree sign, °, but unfortunately the degree sign was still in the Japanese font. I know from various trials that the degree sign is in most of the common fonts on Word, so it is not a problem with the font not being available. Can anyone tell me how to change the degree sign into the Western font automatically? Thank you very much for any suggestions or help with this one. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Further to this discussion, I ripped the following off from a recent post to
the vba.beginners newsgroup and tried it for my replacement instead of the macro-recorder version. The strange thing is that with this version (the whole of which is copied below), the font replacement is carried out correctly. I've tried it on a small sample file and also on the original file which was causing problems, with and without track changes, and it works perfectly. Sub zapa() Selection.HomeKey wdStory Selection.Find.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find Do While .Execute(FindText:="„ƒ", _ MatchWildcards:=False, _ Wrap:=wdFindContinue, Forward:=True) = True Selection.Range = "°C" Loop End With End Sub It may be just because I'm a beginner, but macros in Microsoft Word seem to be some kind of crazy voodoo where you can't possibly tell what's going to happen. Oh well, thanks for the help from everyone. |
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