Monthly Archives: November 2000

Here’s the scenario: You open a giant document from a client and start looking through it. But what’s this? The same odd character at the beginning of every paragraph. Must be some kind of file translation error. Odder still, Microsoft Word won’t let you paste the character into its Find and Replace dialog, so how […]

Our last newsletter explained how to search for special characters (such as carriage returns and section breaks) using character codes. You can read the newsletter here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?sort=d&mid=1703875043 Why should you, as an editor, writer, or publisher, care about something as “technical” as searching with codes? Because they make it possible to find and replace things […]

In our last newsletter, I explained how to find Microsoft Word footnote numbers using the character code ^02. You can read the newsletter here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1703696660 There are other character codes you can use to find certain items: * For a carriage return, you can use ^013. * For a section break, you can use ^012. […]