TextPal has an ASCII Only command, Alt+Shift+A. It eliminates non-ASCII characters, however, rather than replacing them with spaces. Jamal On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, John Schwery wrote: > Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:25:19 -0400 > From: John Schwery <jschwery@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: GUISPEAK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [guispeak] SEARCH AND REPLACE? > > I am looking for a program that will allow me to clean up > Ascii garbage from text files. For example, between words I will se > a character that Window Eyes says is something like, ural. I need to > find out what this character is and replace it with a space. Any ideas? > > > John > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.13.0/465 - Release Date: 10/6/2006 > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq