[thelist] Removing Microsoft Word special characters
Timothy J. Luoma
luomat at operamail.com
Thu Sep 18 12:10:27 CDT 2003
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:44:36 +0100, Bird, Graham <Graham.Bird at rspb.org.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to strip "smart" quotes, em dashes and ellipses from Word
> copy? (i.e. all "special" Word characters)
It's easy in UltraEdit.
I just copy the copy (ha ha) and paste into UltraEdit window.
Then I highlight the character that I want to replace such as “ (which
appeared as a double left quote when I was composing this message)
Highlight the character and press CONTROL + R (for Find/Replace) and
UltraEdit will put the Word character in the "find" part, and then I just
put the code I want (such as “) in the replace.
Run a Replace All.
Repeat as needed.
So it all depends where you are pasting from. In my experience, UltraEdit
is priceless.
TjL
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