Peter Gold wrote: > At 11:58 PM -0500 2/9/06, John Huntington wrote: >> I have a large document I imported into FM from Word. There are tons >> of imported "discretionary hyphens" distributed throughout the >> document, and I'd like to get rid of them. However, I can't figure >> out how to get the Find/Change feature to change them. I tried >> using the "Text and Character formats on clipboard" for the search >> field, and also searching for Any Marker, but neither of those >> approaches would find them. Any suggestions? > > Select and copy one of them to the clipboard. You may need to zoom to > high magnification to select it. Paste it into the Find text box. > Replace with nothing. I tried that, but it won't paste anything.
Art Campbell wrote: > IF (<<< Note BIG If) they're the same character that FM uses, you should be > able to find them by typing a backslash \ before the dash/hyphen character in > the Find box: \- > That did the trick!!! > I usually find them by selecting one and copying it to the clipboard and then > using the "Text ... on clipboad" Find option. Not sure why it isn't working > for you... You're doing a Copy command after selecting it, right? > Yep, it was weird. Thanks to everyone for the help!
