Hi Allison,If memory serves me correctly on this befuddled Friday afternoon, using ^- will represent an optional hyphen in Microsoft Word.
Cheers, Jake----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison Hilliker" <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:54 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Removing Optional Hyphens
Hi Everyone,Does anyone know how to do a global find and replace of optional hyphens? I have a book where there are several of them inside words. This breaks up the words and makes them difficult to read. Rather than replacing them one-by-one, I'd like to replace them all at once. With most unusual characters, I can do a find and replace, but it doesn't seem to be working with this one. In part because I don't know how to create an optional hyphen. I looked at the JAWS marks that one can find by pressing insert 4, but it's not in that list. I tried looking on my special alt characters cheat sheet, and it's not on there either. Lastly, I tried selecting and copying the character and pasting it into the find and replace box, but it doesn't seem to want to paste. In fact when I tried, it deleted all my spaces in the book and made it into a log strand of words. Yikes. I could luckily undo that easily enough, but I still have my optional hyphens cluttering up my book. BTW, I'm using MS Word 2002 and JFW 9.0.Thanks in advance for any help. Allison 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.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.5/1359 - Release Date: 4/4/2008 8:23 AM
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