Archive for November, 2000

What’s That Character?

Tuesday, November 28th, 2000

Here’s the scenario: You open a giant document from a client and start looking through it. But what’s this? The same odd character at the beginning of every paragraph. Must be some kind of file translation error. Odder still, Microsoft Word won’t let you paste the character into its Find and Replace dialog, so how are you going to get rid of them all? By hand? Horrors!

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Searching with Microsoft Word’s Built-in Codes

Tuesday, November 14th, 2000

Our last newsletter explained how to search for special characters (such as carriage returns and section breaks) using character codes. You can read the newsletter here:

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Searching with Character Codes

Tuesday, November 7th, 2000

In our last newsletter, I explained how to find Microsoft Word footnote numbers using the character code ^02. You can read the newsletter here:

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