Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!arrester!palmer From: palmer@arrester.caltech.edu (David Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MS Word Change Problem Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 90 04:35:10 GMT References: <1990Sep10.162820.2790@csc.anu.oz> Sender: news@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 29 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. > 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? Instead of pasting the clipboard into the change box (which just puts the characters, without styles, into the box) type ^c, (c for clipboard.) That gives you the equivalent of selecting what you're looking for, and then pasting. Don't you lazy people ever read the 454 page manual before you start running a program? These are COMPUTERS for Pete's sake! You wouldn't do brain surgery without checking a few medical texts out of the library first, you don't start lion taming before reading a book about it, you don't learn to put out oil well fires by trial and error. Why do people think they can use a word processor without years of training? -- David Palmer palmer@gap.cco.caltech.edu ...rutgers!cit-vax!gap.cco.caltech.edu!palmer I have the power to cloud men's minds -- or at least my own.