Getting rid of a weird character Fishy <<*(((><[ at ]drift.net> 12/30/2008 5:24:27 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 "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000[ at ]yahoo.com> 12/30/2008 6:26:25 AM [Quoted Text] > I can find it in my character map and insert one, > but I cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. If you find it in the character map, what is the Unicode value? (so that we know what you have there) -- Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Visual C++] http://www.mihai-nita.net ------------------------------------------ Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email

Re: Getting rid of a weird character "PamC via OfficeKB.com" <u43222[ at ]uwe> 12/31/2008 3:31:21 AM Sounds like an optional hyphen. With formatting characters showing, place cursor in the middle of a line of type and press ctrl+- (hyphen). Is that what you see? Now, if you put cursor immediately to the right of a character and press Alt+x, Word will return a hexadecimal number for that character. But Word does not do that for its formatting characters. To get rid of optional hyphens, find ^- and replace it with nothing. If the character you want to get rid of is not the optional hyphen, get the character's hexadecimal value (Alt+x) . Convert the hex number to the equivalent decimal number (I use the Windows calculator). Then search for ^unnnn (where nnnn is the decimal number) and replace it with nothing. PamC Fishy <<*(((> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into English. What I >received has a character 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. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/ms-word-general/200812/1