I have been editing a fairly large document. It was OCR'd from a PDF and lots of the formatting was screwed up.



I undertook a number of actions in terms of Find and Replace. This involved getting rid of unnecessary paragraph marks, scrapping the section breaks, getting rid of column breaks (after making the document a single column) and removing all images (using a macro).

I'm left with some annoying symbols that are greyed-out, that I can edit like normal text. But it is quite annoying as I can't see why it would be there.

Anyone know what is going on?

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Please attach a document containing a representative sample of the actual unwanted content you're trying to process. It's impossible for anyone to say for sure what the problem is otherwise.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

macropod is correct that a document is needed.
Attach a Sample File Demonstrating the Problem - Here's How



OCR is far from perfect and some programs are better than others.

Some original material is much more prone to mistakes.
Anything that was subject to OCR needs careful human proof-reading.

If possible, include one page from the word doc along with the same page from the PDF; might give us a better idea of what's happening.