Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!are.berkeley.edu!dana From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MS Word Change Problem Message-ID: <1990Sep14.225757.11608@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 14 Sep 90 22:57:57 GMT References: <1990Sep10.162820.2790@csc.anu.oz> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: UC Berkeley, Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics Lines: 11 > 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? > It can be accomplished by first copying the change to the clipboard and then in the change dialog box use the notation "^c" (that's a caret found at shift-6 on the keyboard). This will use the contents of the clipboard to make the change (complete with font and formatting details which would be lost if you were to simply paste into the change box.