How do I find an emdash using wildcards?

G

Guest

I have documents that contain long dashes, but I'm having trouble identifying
a wildcard search that I can use in a macro to find and replace them. The
typical ^= and ^+ don't seem to find them, and I've also tried using a
variety of ANSI/ASCII character codes that don't seem to find them either.
When I attempt to cut and paste the dashes into my VB editor, they come out
as a question mark. Any ideas?
 
J

Jay Freedman

You should be able to use ^0150 and ^0151 for en and em dashes,
respectively.

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Jay Freedman
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