Re: Odd character <SP> appearing in headers (prior threads noted)

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To add to my earler comments, the backspace (ascii 8) character is used as a placeholder for a graphic so, perhaps, the actual graphic has somehow got corrupted or deleted.

Although I have seen some reports of this it is pretty rare - one every few months or so, and I really would be interested to see a sample document if you have one that isn't confidential.

On the other hand, I seem to remember someone saying it happened for an individual user so maybe it isn't document-related; if so, a guess could be some corruption in the Word Data key?

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Hank Roberts" <ankhank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:b201af2f-0e56-4140-bf64-2c6f9324d5af@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To clarify, it's something that _looks_like_ <SP? but behaves
strangely.
We know (see prior threads) that <SP> means "space" -- that's not the
reason for the several threads.

Summing up, quoting myself from the last prior thread:

It looks like <sp>
It's a single thing, hilights as a unit.
It can't be deleted by hilighting and hitting delete or backspace
It can be copied and pasted
It shows up somehow attached to images in headers
It shows up sporadically in the middle of runs of carriage returns
used by, well, users, to format pages
It shows up once in a while along with the last paragraph mark in a
document

If it's in the middle of a run of carriage returns and I select
several on either side of the weird <sp> thing, it will cut out.

If it's attached to an image, it can't be cut without losing the
image.

AND, quoting Tony from the prior thread(s):


Tony Jollans
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This is an issue I have seen reported a couple of times. The <sp>
appears to be a backspace character (ascii 8) that has somehow got
fixed in the document. IIRC it is awkward but not impossible to
delete. I have never managed to reproduce the problem myself. If you
can consistently do so, I would be very interested to know how. --
Enjoy, Tony "Tony Law" <Tony...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:68C15F95-2846-4485-B419-E4E6994561C2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -
Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text ->I would like to know what it
means. We are having the same issue here. > "JoAnn Paules" wrote: >>
Do you want to know what it means or what? >> -- >> JoAnn Paules >>
MVP Microsoft [Publisher] >> ~~~~~ >> How to ask a question >>
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 >> "Hank Roberts"
<ankh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:21106398-15ca-467b-
b44b-8029d96cad27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > Just checking --
has _anyone_ a clue about where this <sp> comes from? >> > My tech
support guy just told me, they're still mystified where I >> > work.
> I haven't found anything else on it anywhere, just the several
threads >> > here mentioning it including mine.
More options Feb 21, 4:43 pm
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
From: "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:43:33 -0000
...
This is an issue I have seen reported a couple of times. The <sp>
appears to
be a backspace character (ascii 8) that has somehow got fixed in the
document. IIRC it is awkward but not impossible to delete.

I have never managed to reproduce the problem myself. If you can
consistently do so, I would be very interested to know how.

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