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From: xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird)
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Subject: Re: MS Word Change Problem
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.153137.22424@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 90 15:31:37 GMT
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In article <1990Sep10.162820.2790@csc.anu.oz> ndg503@csc.anu.oz writes:

>	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.
>	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?
>
>Nick Guoth
>RSC  ANU  Australia
>nickg@rsc0.anu.edu.au
>	or
>ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au



If your friend is just trying to remove control characters, he should
first determine the ASCII number of the character by selecting one,
and then pushing option-command-q. This will report the number in the lower
left hand corner of the Word Window. Then go to the change command and
in the "find" area put ^# where # is the number reported by the previous
command. This will tell word to find the next occurrance of that 
character and then do the action you tell the change window to do.

You can read about the change commands and options on pages 16-18,
56, and 57-61.

A better way to handle these control characters is to run the DOS file
through Apple File Exchange where they can be removed and the file
output as a Word file.


Good Luck,

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