Thanks Evan for the below suggestion. It worked perfectly! It's great to have those hyphens gone now. Also I've now learned a neat little trick for finding the alt commands for characters.
Thanks again, Allison----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:12 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
What I would do is find an example in the book, then hit the 5 on the numpad until JAWS tells me the ASCII value of that character. Then, go to the Find menu and type alt-0 and the three digit number of the optional hyphen character in there. I think that should work.Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison Hilliker" <hillikera@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:02 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional HyphensHi again,I just tried the ^- method again and it did not work. It said it made zero replacements, and sure enough when I checked the file, the optional hyphens were still there. I am using a different version of Word-Word 2002. That's the most current version that I have.Thanks, Allison----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional HyphensHi Allison,Are you sure? I looked it up in the help and it says to use ^- I also went through the menus in the Replace dialogue and had Word auto insert it, and it put ^-. Maybe we have different versions of Word? I'm running 2003. Odd.Cheers, Jake----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison Hilliker" <hillikera@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:31 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional HyphensHi Jake,No. I'd already tried the ^-. That is actually the code for a soft return. There are none of those in my book. So if anyone has another suggestion I'd appreciate it.Thanks, Allison----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:23 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional HyphensHi 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 HyphensHi 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 AMTo 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.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 AMTo 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.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.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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