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Replacing non-printing special character in Word
Your comment that the ^7 approach worked for you was most interesting. It definitely doesn't work for me and I am using Office XP (which has Word 2002). So I got to thinking, maybe the issue has something to do with changes that have been made by our good friends at Microsoft for the newest...- charlie39
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- Forum: Microsoft: Office
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Replacing non-printing special character in Word
I need to convert an ascii text file which contains a non-printing character (the bell code, ascii 7) into a Word document. I would like to convert the bell code into a printable character (such as a "~"). However, Word can not find the bell code in the document, although I can see...- charlie39
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- Replies: 2
- Forum: Microsoft: Office
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Converting rtf to plain text
I have received an Access 97 database file with a memo field that contains descriptive text along with rtf formatting characters. What would be the best/easiest way to convert the information in this memo field to simple ascii text, while converting the italic and bold formatting characters to...- charlie39
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- Forum: Microsoft: Access Modules (VBA Coding)
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Editing text using SQL update query
I am working with an Access 97 database file that contains a memo field that has some invalid HTML tags that need to be cleaned up. For example, it contains "<\I>" as the closing tag for italics instead of "</I>". Oracle supports a "Replace" function that would...- charlie39
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- Forum: Microsoft: Access Queries and JET SQL
