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How to remove this special character in Word or in TagEditor?
Thread poster: Sylvain Leray
Sylvain Leray
Sylvain Leray  Identity Verified
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German to French
Oct 12, 2008

I have a recurrent problem with the files from a certain customer (Word files, I think they are imported from DTP-files) : the Word files are full of this special character ¬ (Alt+0172) which apperas in the middle of words overall the document.
"Search and replace" have no effet : no match found. It is very annoying, and in TagEditor it appears as a tag which breaks the words in 2 or 3 parts.

Would you know how to remove this character other than manually, either in Word or... See more
I have a recurrent problem with the files from a certain customer (Word files, I think they are imported from DTP-files) : the Word files are full of this special character ¬ (Alt+0172) which apperas in the middle of words overall the document.
"Search and replace" have no effet : no match found. It is very annoying, and in TagEditor it appears as a tag which breaks the words in 2 or 3 parts.

Would you know how to remove this character other than manually, either in Word or in Tageditor? Is it possible in TagEditor to do "Search and replace" for a tag?

Many thanks in advance! ▲ Collapse
 
Jerzy Czopik
Jerzy Czopik  Identity Verified
Germany
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Polish to German
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Do you have the original Word file? Oct 12, 2008

If yes, use Search&Replace there, replace the "discretiionary hyphen" (this is the sign you are searching) by nothing.

Otheriwse open the TTX in Notepad and search for <ut DisplayText="x1f">&#x1f;</ut> and replace this with nothing.
Save the file and reopen it in Tageditor - now all hyphens should not be present anymore.

HTH
Jerzy
 
Sylvain Leray
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A zillion thanks... Oct 12, 2008

Jerzy, once more you saved my day! More than 3000 hyphens replaced...
I didn't know the name of this symbol, and typing it "as is" in the Search box lead to ne result...
Thank you so much !

Sylvain
 
Spiros Doikas
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In Word Oct 12, 2008

you can also check these symbols (Find-Replace dialog)

^~

and

^-
 
Geneviève von Levetzow
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The name in German Oct 12, 2008

http://www.typografie.info/typoforum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1178

Geneviève
 
Jerzy Czopik
Jerzy Czopik  Identity Verified
Germany
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Well, this German name is not conform with Word Oct 12, 2008

because in Word it is not called "optionaler Bindestrich", but "bedingter Trennstrich", at least so in my Word 2003.
 
William [Bill] Gray
William [Bill] Gray  Identity Verified
Norway
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Soft hyphen Oct 14, 2008

This term is also used in English for this feature.
 
Maurice Koopman
Maurice Koopman  Identity Verified
Netherlands
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Thank you very much. Jun 10, 2012

Four years later your answer is still valued very much. I just eliminated 467 of those.
 


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