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Copper Contributor

Jan 20, 2023

Find and Replace dialog box show weird characters

Hello, Anyone who can help me fix these weird characters? I'm regularly using one of our files via Excel in the browser (SharePoint) and today I noticed that when I type in the Find and Replace ...

Brass Contributor

Feb 01, 2023

We’re seeing the same. Re-built the PC (win 10). Edge still shows the issue.
Same user on a different PC (same AAD login) - good (so far)
Another Edge profile on first PC, different 365 user — BAD
Installed Chrome — occurs there too BAD.
Installed Firefox — doesn’t occur (so far).
Logged into the same PC as another (local) user. — good. (so far)

Also, using browser’s Dev tools, changed the font away from Arial, correct characters appear!

So, affects Edge and Chrome. Not seen in Firefox.
Only affects one user profile on one PC (so far) — reoccurred after a rebuilt.
Only affects Arial.

I’ve put lots of “so far” because, as noted her by other folks, and we’ve seen, that the issue can take time to appear.
https://twitter.com/alanjmcf/status/1620790554337615872

aguilmet

Brass Contributor

Feb 03, 2023

What do you mean by "using browser’s Dev tools, changed the font away from Arial"? Where in the Dev tools are you changing that?

Alanjmcf
Brass Contributor
Feb 03, 2023
It’s something that has to be done each time, so its only a test, not a fix.

See the video in my tweet https://twitter.com/alanjmcf/status/1620806678873780225?s=20&t=yMgC1JLlxXL5SOTDWpoeZg However note that one has to add the “font-family” line, I’d already added it when I recorded that.