Weird Characters

[Guest]

I'm working with a document that was scanned as rich text. In Word there are
some words that have a break character that looks like a hypen with an edge
on it. What is that called and is there a way to globally get rid of them?
I'm revising the document from the scan. Thanks.

 

[Dawn Crosier, MVP]

Is it the Not Sign? ALT+0172? You should be able to copy it and paste it
into your Find and Replace dialog box. (When you are in the dialog box, you
will need to CTRL+V to paste what you have copied into it.)

Then you can replace it with whatever is appropriate for your situation.

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[Guest]

It's this little guy. ¬

Is it the Not Sign? ALT+0172? You should be able to copy it and paste it
into your Find and Replace dialog box. (When you are in the dialog box, you
will need to CTRL+V to paste what you have copied into it.)

Then you can replace it with whatever is appropriate for your situation.

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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[Dawn Crosier, MVP]

Yep, that's the Not Sign. (See Insert, Symbols)

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[CyberTaz]

Exactly what Dawn was referring to - it's used in Word to indicate the
presence of an Optional Hyphen.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And it is displayed only if you have nonprinting characters displayed; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

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[mrsparks]

You could try using find and replace ??