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metflunky - 22 Aug 2005 18:25 GMT

I have characters that look like little boxes in my text in Word. The text is
being brought in from a mainframe download. I want to get rid of these
characters but I can't seem to figure out how.

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Jezebel - 22 Aug 2005 21:54 GMT

Work out what character(s) they represent. Select one, then switch to VBA
and in the immediate window use: ? Asc(Selection). That tells you the code
of the first character in the selection. Then use Find and Replace to delete
that character: Search for ^nnn (where nnn is the character number); replace
with nothing.

>I have characters that look like little boxes in my text in Word. The text
>is
> being brought in from a mainframe download. I want to get rid of these
> characters but I can't seem to figure out how.

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metflunky - 23 Aug 2005 13:59 GMT

That's awesome, it worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

> Work out what character(s) they represent. Select one, then switch to VBA
> and in the immediate window use: ? Asc(Selection). That tells you the code
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> > being brought in from a mainframe download. I want to get rid of these
> > characters but I can't seem to figure out how.

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