Hello Some of you have just helped me to with a special character. I now need to insert the special character in Word to replace all instances of 'dt'. But there is a hitch. When I bring up Words 'find and replace window', I can insert my special character in 'find' (by highlighting it first before opening the window), but I can't seem to get it to appear in the replace window. In other words, I can't find a way to replace 'dt' with the special character (except manually of course thru the document) I do have the code for the character thanks to this group (decimal 61440/hex F000). So I guess that if Word will not accept character in 'replace', I might be able to get sm to write a macro to do it. But any ideas are welcome. Thanks Dave Neve
You might see if http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/FindReplaceSymbols.htm is at all helpful. -- 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. "Dave Neve" wrote in message news:eCMEknpEGHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... > Hello > > Some of you have just helped me to with a special character. > > I now need to insert the special character in Word to replace all instances > of 'dt'. > > But there is a hitch. > > When I bring up Words 'find and replace window', I can insert my special > character in 'find' (by highlighting it first before opening the window), > but I can't seem to get it to appear in the replace window. > > In other words, I can't find a way to replace 'dt' with the special > character (except manually of course thru the document) > > I do have the code for the character thanks to this group (decimal 61440/hex > F000). > > So I guess that if Word will not accept character in 'replace', I might be > able to get sm to write a macro to do it. > > But any ideas are welcome. > > Thanks > > Dave Neve > >
Hi Dave, You can use Alt+61440 in "Replace with", or paste it there using the clipboard (Ctrl+V). Regards, Klaus "Dave Neve" wrote: > Hello > > Some of you have just helped me to with a special character. > > I now need to insert the special character in Word to replace all > instances of 'dt'. > > But there is a hitch. > > When I bring up Words 'find and replace window', I can insert my special > character in 'find' (by highlighting it first before opening the window), > but I can't seem to get it to appear in the replace window. > > In other words, I can't find a way to replace 'dt' with the special > character (except manually of course thru the document) > > I do have the code for the character thanks to this group (decimal > 61440/hex F000). > > So I guess that if Word will not accept character in 'replace', I might be > able to get sm to write a macro to do it. > > But any ideas are welcome. > > Thanks > > Dave Neve >
PS: Don't worry if it doesn't show correctly in the dialog: It works anyway. That range of Unicode is reserved for private use, so the Word dialog has no way to tell what the character actually looks like.
