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Hidden Symbol in Word; Cannot Find and Replace
When copying pasting from web pages or from Google email, I often encounter this weird symbol, imbedded in the document and only visible from the Show/Hide function. It creates an extra space in documents. Problem is, I cannot do a "Find/Replace" to remove it from Word docs. Can someone tell me what this character is referred to in Word and how to "Find/Replace" it? Thanks.
Hidden Symbol?
Try selecting and copying one of the characters. Then in Replace, paste into the Find What box.
If that does not work, try putting ^c in the Find What box.
Try pasting as plain text.
I suspect it is something that does not fit with your font.Charles_Kenyon Thank you. I have tried this (Find/Replace a space character), but this is not a space, a non-breaking space or white space. It is something else that "Find" skips over. I have also tried to copy and paste the character in "Find/Replace" and it will not paste into the "Find" box.
- Did you try ^c?
Did you read the link?
