Slightly OT, but I just have to say...I used to tell people, oh you can learn any of this computer stuff, all you have to be is smarter than the computer, and computers are pretty dumb. Over the years, though, I've realized that it's not how computers think that is important, but how the programmers think. And the programmers at Microsoft are clearly off in their own world.
Misha Judy s. wrote:
Thanks! However, I just discovered in doing some digging that all paragraph marks in Word are not found by the the ^13 because of oddities of Word!For example, if you use a paste special to paste a block of text etc. into Word or otherwise use stuff from the clipboard from other applications, Word may display a paragraph mark where one is supposed to be in that selection but the unicode value underneath it isn't a ^13. The only way to find those and change them to a proper paragraph mark that is a ^13 is to in with visual basic. Yuck!So I'm going to stick with what I've written, as it gets around that bizarre little problem. Within the regular search, searching for ^p will find everything that has been assigned to ^p, whether it has been correctly translated to the unicode ^13 value or not.Have I mentioned lately that I hate Word? grin. Judy s. Soronel Haetir wrote:They are in the Word help files, the only ones that appear useful are ^13 for paragraph and ^12 for section break. On 9/19/09, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yep, there is a reason. I didn't know the sequence that Word will recognized for paragraph marks was ^13 and that it would work properly when wild cards were selected. Grin. So I've been using the tilde sequence to get that to let me use wild cards to replace a paragraph mark. Thank you for asking about it because you've solved a frustration for me with your post! smile. Soronel, do you have a listing or a url for a listing of the code equivalents like this one that are used and recognized specifically in Word that you can share? I've never found one that gave the ^13 equivalent for the paragraph mark when I've looked. There are other Word-restricted special characters that I'd like to know the codes to so I can search for them in the wild card search this way. Judy s. Soronel Haetir wrote:Is there a reason you do the tilde replace rather than use wild-cards and find ^13(a-z]) and replace with \1 ?To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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