Re: Word 10.1.5: Find square-shaped email character/symbols and replace with paragraphs?

From: Dayo Mitchell (dayomitchell_1997_at_NOhotmailSPAM.com)
Date: 02/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:47:26 -0500

Hi Norman,

Glad you solved it--I'll have to remember that trick as I have occasionally
gotten messages in odd formats.

By the way, the Clipboard Contents trick only works in Replace, so the
cursor has to be in that box for the option to show up under More, Special
(you scared me a minute with the thought they had taken out that option, but
I think that must be the issue).

Dayo

"Norman R. Nager, Ph.D." wrote:

> Dayo and others who have tuned into this thread, I now think that the
> paragraph code in the message I tried to clean up in Word become corrupted
> into square symbols as the message moved through cyberspace and different
> kinds of hardware and software between their email program and my Entourage
> 10.1.4. I recall other messages I've seen over the years that have had
> their formatting garbled in transmission.
>
> It's ironic that when I forwarded the message to a colleague and a blind
> copy to myself that all the squares became code for new paragraphs and it
> was quite legible, rather than one giant paragraph broken up by squares.
>
> I know now that Word was the wrong vehicle for attempting to convert the
> squares into paragraph marks.
>
> Respectfully, Norm
>
> On 2/12/04 10:21 AM, in article
> BC51040E.104CA%nnager@NoXSpXam.fullerton.edu, "Norman R. Nager, Ph.D."
> <nnager@NoXSpXam.fullerton.edu> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, Dayo, I appreciate the try but in Word 10.1.5 the ^c in the Replace
>> box (or as an experiment, in the Find box) doesn't do anything to deal with
>> the problem.
>>
>> And in Word 10.1.5, there is nothing that even comes close to "Clipboard
>> Contents" in the list when you click on More and then Special.
>>
>> Maybe it might help you to see the attached Word document I've named "doc
>> with square characters.doc"
>>
>> Don't you just love a good puzzle?
>>
>> Please let me know if nothing can be done at your end to solve the puzzle.
>> But, of course, I'd rather get a triumphant "I solved it!" response.
>>
>> Respectfully, Norm
>>
>> On 2/12/04 3:38 AM, in article
>> BC50CD96.1D77C%dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com, "Dayo Mitchell"
>> <dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Norman,
>>>
>>> Try using ^c in the Replace box (or click More, Special, Clipboard
>>> Contents).
>>>
>>> DM
>>>
>>> "Norman R. Nager, Ph.D." wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/11/04 12:39 PM, in article
>>>> BC4FD30F.1041C%nnager@NoXSpXam.fullerton.edu, "Norman R. Nager, Ph.D."
>>>> <nnager@NoXSpXam.fullerton.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please help. I copied and pasted a square symbol into my first attempt at
>>>> this posting and it showed on my monitor, but didn't in my initial positing
>>>> of this message.
>>>>
>>>> One company's tech support dept. is sending me very long automated email
>>>> responses that I receive with Entourage 10.1.4 but they are extremely
>>>> difficult to read because they come with square-shaped symbols where
>>>> paragraphs should be.
>>>>
>>>> I copied and pasted one of their messages into a new Word 10.1.5 document
>>>> and wanted to find and replace all the squares with new paragraphs.
>>>>
>>>> I was going to type the code for paragraph ^p into the Replace box and copy
>>>> and paste the squares into the Find box , but Word 10.1.5 can't handle that
>>>> and merely inserts ^p or blank spaces in the Find box, neither or which
>>>> helps find the square characters.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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