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Old 07-18-2019, 12:34 PM
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I copied a long web page body text and pasted it into a blank page in MS Word. everything is okay, but I see many numbers of this strange sign that I haven't seen it before and don't know what's meaning and more importantly how can I remove all of them from my 24-pages document instead of one by one?

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Select one of them and copy it. Then open the find and replace dialog and paste it into the Find what box and press Replace All
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The symbols in your screen shot look like Word bookmarks. These are created automatically by Word if you copy and paste as link, that is, if you create an OLE link. Of course, they could also have been created manually by someone who has edited the document. Bookmarks can be removed from the Insert > Bookmark dialog box.
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Old 07-19-2019, 12:35 AM
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Select one of them and copy it. Then open the find and replace dialog and paste it into the Find what box and press Replace All
They can't be select to copy it!
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Old 07-19-2019, 12:49 AM
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The symbols in your screen shot look like Word bookmarks. These are created automatically by Word if you copy and paste as link, that is, if you create an OLE link. Of course, they could also have been created manually by someone who has edited the document. Bookmarks can be removed from the Insert > Bookmark dialog box.
Great Job Stefan!I removed all of them because I don't need them, I have to select one by one each bookmark from "Bookmark" window and hit the "Delete" button, that's a little boring and If someone has very long document, it would be time-wasting job to remove one by one. Does any option have to remove all bookmarks immediately?
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Great Job Stefan!I removed all of them because I don't need them, I have to select one by one each bookmark from "Bookmark" window and hit the "Delete" button, that's a little boring and If someone has very long document, it would be time-wasting job to remove one by one. Does any option have to remove all bookmarks immediately?

There is no built-in command to remove all bookmarks in one step. A macro could be used, I suppose.

However, note that you do not have to remove the bookmarks, even if they are not being used. If you leave them behind, they won't cause any harm.
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If someone has very long document, it would be time-wasting job to remove one by one
Save the doc as a plain TXT file and then reopen in Word. That will remove pretty much everything except content.

If you need to preserve some formatting from the original source, then you'll need to tag it so you can recreate it after the DOCX > TXT > DOCX trip.
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Save the doc as a plain TXT file and then reopen in Word. That will remove pretty much everything except content.

If you need to preserve some formatting from the original source, then you'll need to tag it so you can recreate it after the DOCX > TXT > DOCX trip.
Nice trick! Yes, I need the source formatting and saved txt removed all styles. I didn't get understand what you mean of tag, would you please give more information about how to reserve the source formatting in my doc file after txt step?
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Converting to text only is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The bookmarks are not a particular problem you need to remove and certainly if there are any cross-references in the document, removing bookmarks could be causing lots of broken cross-references.

You can HIDE the bookmark indicator so they become invisible by going to Tools > Options > Advanced > Show Document Content > Show Bookmarks and unchecking the box.

You can delete all bookmarks by running a macro such as
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Sub KillBookmarks()
  Do While ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Count > 0
    ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(1).Delete
  Loop
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Old 07-21-2019, 06:06 PM
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Converting to text only is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Agreed, we call it 'nuking' here

Your solutions are much better for one-off situations.

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I didn't get understand what you mean of tag, would you please give more information about how to reserve the source formatting in my doc file after txt step?
This is just fyi, as Andrew's solutions above are much better for fixing one or two problems.

I deal with long documents—typically 25-100K words—which may have been thru a lot of different OSs and WP programs. After a frustrating year of trying to track down weird and wonderful problems, I developed a 'nuke and rebuild' process.

Essentially it's a bunch of Global Replace macros before and after the TXT step. So to preserve all italics:

Original doc:
Find all italic text;
Replace each instance with [startItalic]Found Text[EndItalic].

The square brackets' content are the 'tags' I mentioned, they can be anything you like as long as they are unique—ie won't match any legit content.

Code:
Sub IdentifyItalic()
'Surround Italic text with ItalicStart and ItalicEnd to identify it when formatting is stripped.
     Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
     Selection.Find.Font.Italic = True
     Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
     With Selection.Find
          .Text = ""
          .Replacement.Text = "ItalicStart^&ItalicEnd"
          .Forward = True
          .Wrap = wdFindContinue
          .Format = True
          .MatchCase = False
          .MatchWholeWord = False
          .MatchWildcards = False
          .MatchSoundsLike = False
          .MatchAllWordForms = False
     End With
     Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
Post TXT Docx:
Find all the text tagged above, using Wildcards;
Make it Italic;
A later routine deletes all tags and changes direct formatting to styles.

Code:
Sub ItalicRestore()
'Restore Italics [blue for visibility disabled due to problem caused for BaseFix routine]
     Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
     Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
     With Selection.Find.Replacement.Font
          .Italic = True
'          .Color = wdColorBlue
     End With
     With Selection.Find
          .Text = "ItalicStart*ItalicEnd"
          .Replacement.Text = "^&"
          .Forward = True
          .Wrap = wdFindContinue
          .Format = True
          .MatchCase = False
          .MatchWholeWord = False
          .MatchAllWordForms = False
          .MatchSoundsLike = False
          .MatchWildcards = True
     End With
     Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
This approach might be less useful if your original documents are in good shape. It suits me as my input docs can be a mess, so I need to take a hammer and paintbrush to them one way or the other.
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Old 07-22-2019, 01:28 AM
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Converting to text only is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The bookmarks are not a particular problem you need to remove and certainly if there are any cross-references in the document, removing bookmarks could be causing lots of broken cross-references.

You can HIDE the bookmark indicator so they become invisible by going to Tools > Options > Advanced > Show Document Content > Show Bookmarks and unchecking the box.

You can delete all bookmarks by running a macro such as
Code:
Sub KillBookmarks()
  Do While ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Count > 0
    ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(1).Delete
  Loop
End Sub
Agree with you, and personally didn't like to delete the bookmarks. I need to import the .docx into a CAT Tool (translation software), so I guessed, it's better to remove those bookmarks and thought they would be some causes in the CAT Tool by their formatting tags or anything else.
Hide/Show is a good idea for hiding bookmarks while we need them, but we don't like they appear on my docs. Thank you!
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