why 'find and replace' does not work with arabic symbols? please h

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On 6/4/05 8:04 PM, "mooad2005" wrote:
 
thank you Daiya for giving me a time to answer,
now my text is made with arabic bymdols, i have pasted the file which
contain these symbols. into the font folder of the control panel.
In word when i paste any of these symbol in 'find&replace' box it changes
into a compete different symbol like a square or ball ...i want to be able to
select some of them from my text of 600 pages, and edit the color and the
size.
i hope you benefit me from your experience,
thanks million
 
If your document uses a very old Arabic font (from Word 6 times), maybe Word considers it to be a symbol font.

With any Unicode font and Arabic text, you should be able to copy/paste text into "Find what" just fine.

Also, the color of diacritics in Arabic is a style setting, I think. So you shouldn't need to use "Find/Replace" and just edit the style.

Maybe you'll find some tool on the net to convert your old Arabic font to Unicode. I know such tools exist for many old Greek fonts.

Regards,
Klaus
 
tahks a lot klaus, i ll try

Klaus Linke said:
If your document uses a very old Arabic font (from Word 6 times), maybe Word considers it to be a symbol font.

With any Unicode font and Arabic text, you should be able to copy/paste text into "Find what" just fine.

Also, the color of diacritics in Arabic is a style setting, I think. So you shouldn't need to use "Find/Replace" and just edit the style.

Maybe you'll find some tool on the net to convert your old Arabic font to Unicode. I know such tools exist for many old Greek fonts.

Regards,
Klaus
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