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Quotes in Word 2003
Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP.
We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter A. Anybody have any thoughts on why this might be happening and how to fix it? Thanks Scott Schaffer Scott Schaffer ITSA Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller |
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Quotes in Word 2003
The nonconforming quotes are characters in the WP Typographic Symbols font
(indicating that the document originated in WordPerfect or had text from a WP doc pasted into it). Select one of those characters and copy/paste (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V) into the "Find what" box to search for it. -- 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. "Scott Schaffer" wrote in message ... Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP. We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter A. Anybody have any thoughts on why this might be happening and how to fix it? Thanks Scott Schaffer Scott Schaffer ITSA Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller |
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Thank you for your help.
I tried as you suggested. The qoute pastes in as a capital A, then the look and find proceeds to find every A in the document and not the odd quotes. I also tried just searching for any WP TypographicSymbols font in the document and it did not find any. I increased the font size of one of the odd quotes and it does appear to match the symobl found in WP TypographicSymbols font. When this problem first happened, I tried several things to enable us to do a look and find for these odd quotes, including whole document operations, so perhaps I have changed something that is messing up my look and find now. Scott Scott Schaffer ITSA Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller Suzanne S. 12/14/05 05:02pm The nonconforming quotes are characters in the WP Typographic Symbols font (indicating that the document originated in WordPerfect or had text from a WP doc pasted into it). Select one of those characters and copy/paste (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V) into the "Find what" box to search for it. -- 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. "Scott Schaffer" wrote in message ... Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP. We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter A. Anybody have any thoughts on why this might be happening and how to fix it? Thanks Scott Schaffer Scott Schaffer ITSA Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller |
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It's possible that Word, in converting from WP, has formatted these as
Symbol fields. I'd suggest using Alt+F9 to check on this, but ISTR that these are sort of hidden fields that are always displayed as being in the Default Paragraph Font and don't reveal field codes. If you change the font of the paragraph, though, you'll probably find that the symbols are unaffected. You might have a look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.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. "Scott Schaffer" wrote in message ... Thank you for your help. I tried as you suggested. The qoute pastes in as a capital A, then the look and find proceeds to find every A in the document and not the odd quotes. I also tried just searching for any WP TypographicSymbols font in the document and it did not find any. I increased the font size of one of the odd quotes and it does appear to match the symobl found in WP TypographicSymbols font. When this problem first happened, I tried several things to enable us to do a look and find for these odd quotes, including whole document operations, so perhaps I have changed something that is messing up my look and find now. Scott Scott Schaffer ITSA Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller Suzanne S. 12/14/05 05:02pm The nonconforming quotes are characters in the WP Typographic Symbols font (indicating that the document originated in WordPerfect or had text from a WP doc pasted into it). Select one of those characters and copy/paste (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V) into the "Find what" box to search for it. -- 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. "Scott Schaffer" wrote in message ... Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP. We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter A. Anybody have any thoughts on why this might be happening and how to fix it? Thanks Scott Schaffer Scott Schaffer ITSA Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller |
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