Re: ASC save stripping characters

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From: Word Heretic (myfullname_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:11:50 +1000

G'day "dennis" <dennis.jx.olson@NOSPAMstate.mn.us>,

One way is to convert them to something else, like ### before the
conversion, then search for and replace the ### with ASC 167.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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dennis reckoned:

>I have a Word doc with Section characters in it. Not the
>Word Section markers/breaks, but ASCII 167, which displays
>as the split "S" mark for denoting sections in government
>documents. When I convert from a .DOC to a .ASC, the
>Section characters are converted to spaces. Is there any
>way to make that NOT happen?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dennis

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