Getting rid of a weird character Fishy <<*(((><[ at ]drift.net> 12/30/2008 5:19:35 AM I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into English. What I received has a chracter that looks like a hyphen with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to delete all these characters. I believe they represent an accent mark, which is not needed in Japanese Romanji. Perhaps the hyphen with the downward stroke at the end is used to represent some kind of a non-printing chracter. Like the pilcrow, I can keyboard it in. Like the pilcrow, I cannot do a find/replace. There must be a way! I'm using Word XP.

Re: Getting rid of a weird character Swifty <Steve.J.Swift[ at ]gmail.com> 12/30/2008 7:25:07 AM Fishy wrote: [Quoted Text] > Perhaps the hyphen with the downward stroke at the end is used to represent some kind of a > non-printing chracter. Like the pilcrow, I can keyboard it in. Like the pilcrow, I > cannot do a find/replace. There must be a way! The character is a "Not" symbol (it has other uses/names) and for me it is on my keyboard as the shifted top left button. I haven't used it since I moved out of S/370 programming. You may be able to get around the copy/paste problem by including the text around the character (or maybe the whole paragraph) in your copy. You could then paste the simple text into an editor such as wordpad, and modify it there. If you send me a copy of the document I'll see if I can fix it for you (I confess that I find your problem intriguing). If you don't trust mailing someone you don't know, then ask me for my commercial email address. -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk