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>> Is it possible to use Find to find a character/symbol by a code number?
>> I want to find check marks - which, in the insert dialog, show up as
>> "Wingdings: 61692". When I copied the check mark and then pasted
>> it into the Find What field, a "u" with two dots over it showed up.
>> (As I recall from years ago using Wordperfect, under Win3.1, it did
>> much better doing Find What by simply copy & paste when non-standard
>> "stuff" was what I wanted to find; with all of the Word versions since
>> then, Word still doesn't have this feature.) Thanks.
>Hi Igor,
>Copy and paste into "Find what" usually worked fine in versions prior to
>Word2000, too.
>Don't know for sure if it's fixed again in Word2002.
>But if you already know the code, you can look for ^u61692 (I don't know --
>among lots of other things ;-) -- why the "u" should be necessary, why the
>^uXXX is nearly undocumented, why there isn't a shortcut for the more
>widely used hex code U+F0FC, and why it doesn't work with wildcards).
>You can also type in the character with Alt+61692, in which case you'll
>even see the check mark displayed in "Find what". Word will use "Wingdings"
>for all decorative fonts, though, so you are lucky.
>You shouldn't specify the font (Wingdings) if the character had been
>inserted from the "Insert > Symbol" dialog.
>Word2000 hides the "decorative" font so you won't accidentally change it --
>and hides it so successfully it can't figure it out itself when you use
>"Edit > Find.
>Regards,
>Klaus
Klaus - Thanks for the answer. I do have to remind myself that I have to use the
numeric pad when typing in code. And, extra thanks for the background and m{*filter*}
support for this missing feature on Word 2000. (Good guess that I was using Word 2000;
I should have included that in my original post.) -- Igor
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