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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
Have you tried copying the bullet symbol and pasting it into the Find what:
field in Find and Replace? "86Ranger" wrote: 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
Yes. In fact, when I highlight, copy and paste, the paste result actually
appears as two seperate bullets in the FIND field. If I highlight the bullet, then open the FIND dialogue, it appears in the field as "(" open parentheses. "SVC" wrote: Have you tried copying the bullet symbol and pasting it into the Find what: field in Find and Replace? "86Ranger" wrote: 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
What happens, after pasting the symbol in the Find what: box, if you click on
Find Next? Does it take you to the next identical symbol? I've noticed when I paste symbols from a WordPerfect font into the Find what: box, that they don't always replicate what is on screen. But I can Find next and Replace all. Also, have you tried after pasting the symbol into the Find what: box to replace it with something? If so, what happens? "86Ranger" wrote: Yes. In fact, when I highlight, copy and paste, the paste result actually appears as two seperate bullets in the FIND field. If I highlight the bullet, then open the FIND dialogue, it appears in the field as "(" open parentheses. "SVC" wrote: Have you tried copying the bullet symbol and pasting it into the Find what: field in Find and Replace? "86Ranger" wrote: 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
If the bulleted paragraphs have a hanging indent, you could use
column-select (Alt+drag) to select the bullets and delete. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
If I click Find Next, it simply reports back it was not found.
The symbol appears as a simple bullet in the Word document, including when I print it. However, when I copy and paste the symbol into the search field, it appears as a double bullet seperated by space, like this: €¢ €¢ If I try to delete the bullet manually, pressing the delete key once selects the bullet, and pressing the delete key twice will then delete it. It wouldn't seem to be a big deal, but I have over 2000 documents, with several hundred bullets in each. The delete-delete method is killing me. "SVC" wrote: What happens, after pasting the symbol in the Find what: box, if you click on Find Next? Does it take you to the next identical symbol? I've noticed when I paste symbols from a WordPerfect font into the Find what: box, that they don't always replicate what is on screen. But I can Find next and Replace all. Also, have you tried after pasting the symbol into the Find what: box to replace it with something? If so, what happens? "86Ranger" wrote: Yes. In fact, when I highlight, copy and paste, the paste result actually appears as two seperate bullets in the FIND field. If I highlight the bullet, then open the FIND dialogue, it appears in the field as "(" open parentheses. "SVC" wrote: Have you tried copying the bullet symbol and pasting it into the Find what: field in Find and Replace? "86Ranger" wrote: 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. |
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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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
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 -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
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 -- 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 -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
Ah Ha! I think we're on the right trail. Thank you. In the process, I even
learned what those squares in the margin are indicating. However, I am almost certain the bullets I am searching for are symbols as Tony has suggested. I went to the FindReplaceSymbols.htm link provided and built the macro to display the font and unicode number. But the step in the article that says, "Press Ctrl+G or select View + Immediate Window to see the results." has me baffled. "Tony Jollans" wrote: 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 -- 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 -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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The macro produces its results in what's called the "Immediate Window" in
the VB Editor. To see this window (if it's not already displayed) press Ctrl+G or select View Immediate Window from the Mneu in the VBE. -- Enjoy, Tony "86Ranger" wrote in message ... Ah Ha! I think we're on the right trail. Thank you. In the process, I even learned what those squares in the margin are indicating. However, I am almost certain the bullets I am searching for are symbols as Tony has suggested. I went to the FindReplaceSymbols.htm link provided and built the macro to display the font and unicode number. But the step in the article that says, "Press Ctrl+G or select View + Immediate Window to see the results." has me baffled. "Tony Jollans" wrote: 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 -- 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 -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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That's it! Problem no more, solution found. Thank you Tony, Suzanne and SVC.
I not only found an answer to my bullet problem, but learned much in the process. "Tony Jollans" wrote: The macro produces its results in what's called the "Immediate Window" in the VB Editor. To see this window (if it's not already displayed) press Ctrl+G or select View Immediate Window from the Mneu in the VBE. -- Enjoy, Tony "86Ranger" wrote in message ... Ah Ha! I think we're on the right trail. Thank you. In the process, I even learned what those squares in the margin are indicating. However, I am almost certain the bullets I am searching for are symbols as Tony has suggested. I went to the FindReplaceSymbols.htm link provided and built the macro to display the font and unicode number. But the step in the article that says, "Press Ctrl+G or select View + Immediate Window to see the results." has me baffled. "Tony Jollans" wrote: 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 -- 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 -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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How do I find and replace bullet symbols (not style)?
Glad you're sorted - and especially glad you're learning. Happy to have
helped! -- Enjoy, Tony "86Ranger" wrote in message ... That's it! Problem no more, solution found. Thank you Tony, Suzanne and SVC. I not only found an answer to my bullet problem, but learned much in the process. "Tony Jollans" wrote: The macro produces its results in what's called the "Immediate Window" in the VB Editor. To see this window (if it's not already displayed) press Ctrl+G or select View Immediate Window from the Mneu in the VBE. -- Enjoy, Tony "86Ranger" wrote in message ... Ah Ha! I think we're on the right trail. Thank you. In the process, I even learned what those squares in the margin are indicating. However, I am almost certain the bullets I am searching for are symbols as Tony has suggested. I went to the FindReplaceSymbols.htm link provided and built the macro to display the font and unicode number. But the step in the article that says, "Press Ctrl+G or select View + Immediate Window to see the results." has me baffled. "Tony Jollans" wrote: 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 -- 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 -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "86Ranger" wrote in message ... 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. |
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