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I need to highlight all such characters, so I need to use Find/Replace, but what should I put in the Find field?
Copy/pasting the bullet character into the Find field does not work.
Thanks Samuel
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I found a way: I first saved the Word file as a plaintext file, then opened it in a text editor, then copied the character in the text editor, and then pasted it into the Find field. This causes MS Word to paste the correct character into the Find field. Copy/pasting directly from MS Word to the Find dialog results in a different character being pasted (a thick bullet instead of a thin one).
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Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 09:45 Member (2008) Italian to English
Try this
Jun 21, 2018
Try this (I'm using Word 2008 for Mac but it should work for all versions)
Open the find/replace window In "Find what" enter the text you want to search for Highlight that text Down at the bottom of the window click on "Format" and scroll down to "style" A "Find Style" window should open. Scroll down and look for the style you want. Probably "List Bullet"
Try this (I'm using Word 2008 for Mac but it should work for all versions)
Open the find/replace window In "Find what" enter the text you want to search for Highlight that text Down at the bottom of the window click on "Format" and scroll down to "style" A "Find Style" window should open. Scroll down and look for the style you want. Probably "List Bullet"
Then do the same for "Replace with"
Let me know if it works. I've never actually tried it... ▲ Collapse
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 10:45 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
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@Tom
Jun 21, 2018
Tom in London wrote: Let me know if it works. I've never actually tried it...
I tried this, just to let you know, but this is only going to work if the bullet is in fact styled as a "list style" in the file. I did not mention this before, because I did not think it was relevant, but: in my file, the bullet appears in the middle of normal paragraph text, and not as part of a styled list.
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 10:45 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
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Thanks, everyone
Jun 22, 2018
Thanks everyone, I'm glad this problem does not exist in Word 2016. I was using Word 2003. Pasting the exact character from e.g. a web site did not help either. The odd thing is that the character in question has a different appearance in this Word file than it would normally have when you insert this exact same character into a Word file, even with an identical style.
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