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From: cth_larsen@tekno.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MS Word Change Problem. Maybe a solution?
Message-ID: <12377@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 10 Sep 90 15:22:00 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.162820.2790@csc.anu.oz>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <1990Sep10.162820.2790@csc.anu.oz>, ndg503@csc.anu.oz writes:
> Gday,
> 
> 	One of the guys here has a problem with trying to change
> something in his Microsoft Word documents.  The system configuration
> is IIcx, 6.0.4 with Word 4.00A.  
> 	At present he has an old thesis which has been converted
> from a PC disk. Unfortunately, there are a number of these special
> characters (mainly control characters and the like) that appear
> instead of characters in special fonts, like alphas and betas, etc.
*
* Try using Apple File Conversion if you want these control characters to
* deleted permanently from the document. Use the DCA-RTF to MacWrite option
* and also check the menu alternative Text conversion.
*
> 	He would like to change these special characters whilst
> using something like Change (under the Utilities menu), but when
> he copies in from the Clipboard the character alpha it appears as
> the letter "a". So he can't do the change. Can anyone help?
*
* You can specify an ASCII number instead of the specific character in the
* Change dialog. Look in the help file or use ASCII-DA II, a DA which you can
* get a sumex, to find the ASCII equivalent for the character to change.
* Use the caret ^ character and then the ASCII code, e.g. SPC=^032.
*
> 
> Thanks in advance.
*
* Arthur T. Larsen		Chalmers Industriteknik
				Chalmers Technical Park
				S - 412 88  Gothenburg
				E-Mail: larsen@cit.chalmer.se

Good luck!
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