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Old 06-12-2013, 03:33 AM
Stokkers Stokkers is offline How do I delete strange characters from a document. Windows 7 32bit How do I delete strange characters from a document. Office XP
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Hi.

I have been using MS Word since Win 95 and never seen these characters before: and am wondering what they are for and how to delete them from a document. I believe the first dot is a space character. I have tried to highlight them so as to delete them, but to no avail. They are used throughout the document I am trying to edit and can find no reference anywhere.

I could make a new document and cut and paste the text, but being a large document, it would take some time.

Thanks for ant suggestions, folks.
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Old 06-12-2013, 04:21 AM
Stokkers Stokkers is offline How do I delete strange characters from a document. Windows 7 32bit How do I delete strange characters from a document. Office XP
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Hi all.

Well, after posting, I found a solution under 'Similar Threads' It appears that, since I had copied the document from the internet, it turns out that these characters are used in tables in HTML. I followed the instructions in the above Similar Thread and cut and pasted the characters in Edit>Replace All and each character was deleted all in one go.

Surprising what you learn after using Word and HTML after nearly 20 years!
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