How to remove all ¬ marks from word document?
Finding and replacing tools don't recognize this mark. I tried to google the answer but couldn't find it and I'm tired of finding them manually and deleting them one by one. If someone can help me I'll be very grateful!
microsoft-word documents
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
add a comment |
Finding and replacing tools don't recognize this mark. I tried to google the answer but couldn't find it and I'm tired of finding them manually and deleting them one by one. If someone can help me I'll be very grateful!
microsoft-word documents
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
2
If the marks disappear (or change to hyphens) when you click on the paragraph-mark button, then the symbol you are looking for is the optional hyphen. If they remain unchanged, then you are looking at character 170 in ASCII code page 437, or Unicode character 172 in the LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT block.
– Jeff Zeitlin
Jun 5 '17 at 17:07
add a comment |
Finding and replacing tools don't recognize this mark. I tried to google the answer but couldn't find it and I'm tired of finding them manually and deleting them one by one. If someone can help me I'll be very grateful!
microsoft-word documents
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
Finding and replacing tools don't recognize this mark. I tried to google the answer but couldn't find it and I'm tired of finding them manually and deleting them one by one. If someone can help me I'll be very grateful!
microsoft-word documents
microsoft-word documents
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
asked Jun 5 '17 at 16:40
Sausagedog
63
63
2
If the marks disappear (or change to hyphens) when you click on the paragraph-mark button, then the symbol you are looking for is the optional hyphen. If they remain unchanged, then you are looking at character 170 in ASCII code page 437, or Unicode character 172 in the LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT block.
– Jeff Zeitlin
Jun 5 '17 at 17:07
add a comment |
2
If the marks disappear (or change to hyphens) when you click on the paragraph-mark button, then the symbol you are looking for is the optional hyphen. If they remain unchanged, then you are looking at character 170 in ASCII code page 437, or Unicode character 172 in the LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT block.
– Jeff Zeitlin
Jun 5 '17 at 17:07
2
2
If the marks disappear (or change to hyphens) when you click on the paragraph-mark button, then the symbol you are looking for is the optional hyphen. If they remain unchanged, then you are looking at character 170 in ASCII code page 437, or Unicode character 172 in the LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT block.
– Jeff Zeitlin
Jun 5 '17 at 17:07
If the marks disappear (or change to hyphens) when you click on the paragraph-mark button, then the symbol you are looking for is the optional hyphen. If they remain unchanged, then you are looking at character 170 in ASCII code page 437, or Unicode character 172 in the LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT block.
– Jeff Zeitlin
Jun 5 '17 at 17:07
add a comment |
3 Answers
3
active
oldest
votes
For me, the following basic search settings worked in Word 2016: (I pasted all the marks directly from the title of your question.)
After pressing Replace All, the marks are gone.
EDIT:
Another possibility is to disable showing optional hyphens in options:
Yet another possibility is to press Ctrl+Shift+8 if special characters were displayed by toggling this.
If you still have any difficulties, please edit your question and more specific on what is going different from ordinary search/replace
.
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
add a comment |
This character is representing another character in word if you enable "show hidden characters". I'm not entirely sure which character it represents. It could be a tab or a space, or a marker for cells.
Either way, you can simply disable these by pressing the "show hidden characters" button, which looks like this: ¶
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
add a comment |
Never mind, I found a solution in another forum.
You use the kb arrows and keys to copy one letter on each side of the hyphen and then past it into REPLACE and delete the first and last character (leaving the invisible hyphen).
They press "ReplaceAll" and it works!
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "3"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fsuperuser.com%2fquestions%2f1216236%2fhow-to-remove-all-%25c2%25ac-marks-from-word-document%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
3 Answers
3
active
oldest
votes
3 Answers
3
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
For me, the following basic search settings worked in Word 2016: (I pasted all the marks directly from the title of your question.)
After pressing Replace All, the marks are gone.
EDIT:
Another possibility is to disable showing optional hyphens in options:
Yet another possibility is to press Ctrl+Shift+8 if special characters were displayed by toggling this.
If you still have any difficulties, please edit your question and more specific on what is going different from ordinary search/replace
.
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
add a comment |
For me, the following basic search settings worked in Word 2016: (I pasted all the marks directly from the title of your question.)
After pressing Replace All, the marks are gone.
EDIT:
Another possibility is to disable showing optional hyphens in options:
Yet another possibility is to press Ctrl+Shift+8 if special characters were displayed by toggling this.
If you still have any difficulties, please edit your question and more specific on what is going different from ordinary search/replace
.
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
add a comment |
For me, the following basic search settings worked in Word 2016: (I pasted all the marks directly from the title of your question.)
After pressing Replace All, the marks are gone.
EDIT:
Another possibility is to disable showing optional hyphens in options:
Yet another possibility is to press Ctrl+Shift+8 if special characters were displayed by toggling this.
If you still have any difficulties, please edit your question and more specific on what is going different from ordinary search/replace
.
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
For me, the following basic search settings worked in Word 2016: (I pasted all the marks directly from the title of your question.)
After pressing Replace All, the marks are gone.
EDIT:
Another possibility is to disable showing optional hyphens in options:
Yet another possibility is to press Ctrl+Shift+8 if special characters were displayed by toggling this.
If you still have any difficulties, please edit your question and more specific on what is going different from ordinary search/replace
.
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
edited Jun 5 '17 at 20:41
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
answered Jun 5 '17 at 17:06
miroxlav
7,28842466
7,28842466
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
add a comment |
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
It says that "no results were found" when I try to find or replace ¬. It's one of those hidden marks.
– Sausagedog
Jun 5 '17 at 17:48
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
@Sausagedog: Assuming that the character is an optional hyphen, try typing ^- (caret+hyphen) in the Find what field (or click Special, and then select Optional Hyphen).
– cnread
Jun 5 '17 at 19:04
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
Thank you all! Hiding the hyphens wasn't enough, my mission was to delete them all. But it was easier to spot them when only optional hyphens were visible, not all these hidden marks. Typing ^- to the searching field finally solved my problem, word recognized that.
– Sausagedog
Jun 8 '17 at 19:00
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
@Sausagedog If this answer solved your issue, consider making it the accepted answer.
– Steven M. Vascellaro
Jun 27 '17 at 14:46
add a comment |
This character is representing another character in word if you enable "show hidden characters". I'm not entirely sure which character it represents. It could be a tab or a space, or a marker for cells.
Either way, you can simply disable these by pressing the "show hidden characters" button, which looks like this: ¶
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
add a comment |
This character is representing another character in word if you enable "show hidden characters". I'm not entirely sure which character it represents. It could be a tab or a space, or a marker for cells.
Either way, you can simply disable these by pressing the "show hidden characters" button, which looks like this: ¶
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
add a comment |
This character is representing another character in word if you enable "show hidden characters". I'm not entirely sure which character it represents. It could be a tab or a space, or a marker for cells.
Either way, you can simply disable these by pressing the "show hidden characters" button, which looks like this: ¶
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
This character is representing another character in word if you enable "show hidden characters". I'm not entirely sure which character it represents. It could be a tab or a space, or a marker for cells.
Either way, you can simply disable these by pressing the "show hidden characters" button, which looks like this: ¶
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
answered Jun 5 '17 at 19:46
LPChip
35.3k55084
35.3k55084
add a comment |
add a comment |
Never mind, I found a solution in another forum.
You use the kb arrows and keys to copy one letter on each side of the hyphen and then past it into REPLACE and delete the first and last character (leaving the invisible hyphen).
They press "ReplaceAll" and it works!
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
add a comment |
Never mind, I found a solution in another forum.
You use the kb arrows and keys to copy one letter on each side of the hyphen and then past it into REPLACE and delete the first and last character (leaving the invisible hyphen).
They press "ReplaceAll" and it works!
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
add a comment |
Never mind, I found a solution in another forum.
You use the kb arrows and keys to copy one letter on each side of the hyphen and then past it into REPLACE and delete the first and last character (leaving the invisible hyphen).
They press "ReplaceAll" and it works!
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
Never mind, I found a solution in another forum.
You use the kb arrows and keys to copy one letter on each side of the hyphen and then past it into REPLACE and delete the first and last character (leaving the invisible hyphen).
They press "ReplaceAll" and it works!
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
answered Dec 11 at 22:53
Chris
1
1
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
add a comment |
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
a link to the other forum would be helpfull
– Albin
Dec 11 at 23:18
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Super User!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Some of your past answers have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from answering.
Please pay close attention to the following guidance:
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fsuperuser.com%2fquestions%2f1216236%2fhow-to-remove-all-%25c2%25ac-marks-from-word-document%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
2
If the marks disappear (or change to hyphens) when you click on the paragraph-mark button, then the symbol you are looking for is the optional hyphen. If they remain unchanged, then you are looking at character 170 in ASCII code page 437, or Unicode character 172 in the LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT block.
– Jeff Zeitlin
Jun 5 '17 at 17:07