code for odd character

[Keith G Hicks]

I have an odd character that shows up in docs that are from an export from
another program. I need to replace it with nothing but I don't know the
ascii code for the character and cant' find it in any tables. Is there
something in word that will let me highlight a character and then return
it's code? The character is a little arrow that points to the right. (not
this: >). It's not a keyboard character and I can't copy and paste it itno
my vba code.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Possibly a tab character? (See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm) If so, the code
would be ^t. But if it's an actual printing character, you can select it and
press Alt+X to get the Unicode character number.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Keith G Hicks]

I think you're right about it being a printing character. ALT+X does nothing
there but I figured out it's code is 26. And thanks for the tip. I never
knew abotu the ALT+X trick. COol.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unicode character 0026 is an ampersand, but ASCII 26 is the SUB or
substitute character, which, according to Wikipedia, is "a control character
that is used in the place of a character that is recognized to be invalid or
in error or that cannot be represented on a given device." (For more, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_character).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Keith G Hicks]

That makes sense. The text for the docs I'm working on are being generated
by an old DOS program.