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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
Word 2003 (SP2) running under XP
Since my office switched to this setup, Word docs --- both some from 2005 that I created under Word 2000, before we got XP, and hadn't looked at since, and some new documents created by other people on our system, show up with an odd character. It's apparently on my PC somehow -- I see it and it prints, but others using the same document on other computer don't see it and it doesn't print. It looks like sp It's a single thing, hilights as a unit. It can't be deleted by hilighting and hitting delete or backspace It can be copied and pasted It shows up somehow attached to images in headers It shows up sporadically in the middle of runs of carriage returns used by, well, users, to format pages It shows up once in a while along with the last paragraph mark in a document If it's in the middle of a run of carriage returns and I select several on either side of the weird sp thing, it will cut out. If it's attached to an image, it can't be cut without losing the image. Tech support has been puzzling over it for weeks now. Looks to me like it's some bit of Microsoft's Word 2007 file format that snuck in somewhere. Just a minor annoyance, but I figured I couldn't be the only person favored with it. -- Hank Roberts -- formerly , long long ago |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
Oops, my bad. I didn't figure out a way to search for a literal sp
but I just plowed through the first bunch of results for sp and found several threads about this that we'd, er, somehow missed knowing about. I'll go read up. I see it's happened before. (IS there a way to force the search to take the angle brackets and only find the threads discussing sp here?) -- Hank Roberts -- formerly , long long ago |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
On Nov 21, 5:17 pm, Hank Roberts wrote:
Oops, my bad. I didn't figure out a way to search for a literal sp but I just plowed through the first bunch of results for sp and found several threads This one has a workaround, though nobody has an answer about _why_ the thing shows up, near as I can tell: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3eeb f3668f97 |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
Just checking -- has _anyone_ a clue about where this sp comes from?
My tech support guy just told me, they're still mystified where I work. I haven't found anything else on it anywhere, just the several threads here mentioning it including mine. |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
Do you want to know what it means or what?
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Hank Roberts" wrote in message ... Just checking -- has _anyone_ a clue about where this sp comes from? My tech support guy just told me, they're still mystified where I work. I haven't found anything else on it anywhere, just the several threads here mentioning it including mine. |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
I would like to know what it means. We are having the same issue here.
"JoAnn Paules" wrote: Do you want to know what it means or what? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Hank Roberts" wrote in message ... Just checking -- has _anyone_ a clue about where this sp comes from? My tech support guy just told me, they're still mystified where I work. I haven't found anything else on it anywhere, just the several threads here mentioning it including mine. |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
sp is space.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Tony Law" wrote in message ... I would like to know what it means. We are having the same issue here. "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Do you want to know what it means or what? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Hank Roberts" wrote in message ... Just checking -- has _anyone_ a clue about where this sp comes from? My tech support guy just told me, they're still mystified where I work. I haven't found anything else on it anywhere, just the several threads here mentioning it including mine. |
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Odd character sp mystified my tech support
This is an issue I have seen reported a couple of times. The sp appears to
be a backspace character (ascii 8) that has somehow got fixed in the document. IIRC it is awkward but not impossible to delete. I have never managed to reproduce the problem myself. If you can consistently do so, I would be very interested to know how. -- Enjoy, Tony "Tony Law" wrote in message ... I would like to know what it means. We are having the same issue here. "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Do you want to know what it means or what? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Hank Roberts" wrote in message ... Just checking -- has _anyone_ a clue about where this sp comes from? My tech support guy just told me, they're still mystified where I work. I haven't found anything else on it anywhere, just the several threads here mentioning it including mine. |
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