Insert Manual Page Breaks

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To everyone,

I have a text file report which lists each product by country. My
report uses “/â–¡â–¡â€(a back slash with 2 little square boxes next to it)
to mark the beginning and end of each product but it does not put a
page break in between each product.

To insert a manual page break between each product in the report, I
tried to use Word 2003 to “find†this special character (““/â–¡â–¡â€) and
then “replace†it with a manual page break (“^m).

But Word’s got problem finding this special character (““/â–¡â–¡â€) and so
I am unable to insert a manual page break in my report.

The symbol “/□□†is a non-printing character in the report.

I would appreciate your advice and answer please.


Thanks,

Pb
 
You could try selecting one of the nonprinting square boxes and pressing
Alt+X to see what Unicode glyph number is returned.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

To everyone,

I have a text file report which lists each product by country. My
report uses “/â–¡â–¡â€(a back slash with 2 little square boxes next to it)
to mark the beginning and end of each product but it does not put a
page break in between each product.

To insert a manual page break between each product in the report, I
tried to use Word 2003 to “find†this special character (““/â–¡â–¡â€) and
then “replace†it with a manual page break (“^m).

But Word’s got problem finding this special character (““/â–¡â–¡â€) and so
I am unable to insert a manual page break in my report.

The symbol “/□□†is a non-printing character in the report.

I would appreciate your advice and answer please.


Thanks,

Pb
 
You could try selecting one of the nonprinting square boxes and pressing
Alt+X to see what Unicode glyph number is returned.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org


To everyone,

I have a text file report which lists each product by country.  My
report uses  “/â–¡â–¡â€(a back slash with2 little square boxes next to it)
to mark the beginning and end of each product but it does not put a
page break in between each product.

To insert a manual page break between each product in the report, I
tried to use Word 2003 to “find†this special character (““/â–¡â–¡â€) and
then “replace†it with a manual page break (“^m).

But Word’s got problem finding this special character (““/â–¡â–¡â€) and so
I am unable to insert a manual page break in my report.

The symbol “/□□†is a non-printing character in the report.

I would appreciate your advice and answer please.

Thanks,

Pb
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hi suzanne,

unfortunately I am unable to return the unicode for the non-printing
square boxes when I pressed Alt+X in word 2003. however, I have been
told that there are a number of non-printing characters in Word, all
of which appear as nulls, or ascii character zero.





Regards,

Pb
 
hi suzanne,

unfortunately I am unable to return the unicode for the non-printing
square boxes when I pressed Alt+X in word 2003.  however, I have been
told that there are a number of non-printing characters in Word, all
of which appear as nulls, or ascii character zero.

Regards,

Pb- Hide quoted text -

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hi suzanne,

further to my reply above, i believe the unicode for the nonprinting
square boxes is "0020".

i hope this helps.



thanks,

pb
 
0020 is the Unicode character for a space. Do you still see the square boxes
if you hide nonprinting characters (some older or more awful fonts display
spaces as boxes this way--very distracting)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

hi suzanne,

unfortunately I am unable to return the unicode for the non-printing
square boxes when I pressed Alt+X in word 2003. however, I have been
told that there are a number of non-printing characters in Word, all
of which appear as nulls, or ascii character zero.

Regards,

Pb- Hide quoted text -

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hi suzanne,

further to my reply above, i believe the unicode for the nonprinting
square boxes is "0020".

i hope this helps.



thanks,

pb
 
0020 is the Unicode character for a space. Do you still see the square boxes
if you hide nonprinting characters (some older or more awful fonts display
spaces as boxes this way--very distracting)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org







hi suzanne,

further to my reply above, i believe the unicode for the nonprinting
square boxes is "0020".

i hope this helps.

thanks,

pb- Hide quoted text -

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hi suzanne,

when I click the “Show/hide†paragraph button in Word, it reveals the
following symbol:

/ŸŸ

(the square boxes are represented by letter Y with two little dots at
the top of the letter. The letters look like unicode (hex) 0178 in
Word.)

the little square boxes don’t go away even though I try “hide†the all
the paragraph marks in word.




thanks,

pb
 
Unicode 0178 is 159 ASCII, which in the Symbol font is a box such as you
describe. That type of box is typically used by Word for an "I can't print
this" character--in this case representing a font space in which there is no
defined character. I don't know that that helps at all, but there it is.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

0020 is the Unicode character for a space. Do you still see the square
boxes
if you hide nonprinting characters (some older or more awful fonts display
spaces as boxes this way--very distracting)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org







hi suzanne,

further to my reply above, i believe the unicode for the nonprinting
square boxes is "0020".

i hope this helps.

thanks,

pb- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Click to expand...


hi suzanne,

when I click the “Show/hide†paragraph button in Word, it reveals the
following symbol:

/ŸŸ

(the square boxes are represented by letter Y with two little dots at
the top of the letter. The letters look like unicode (hex) 0178 in
Word.)

the little square boxes don’t go away even though I try “hide†the all
the paragraph marks in word.




thanks,

pb
 
Unicode 0178 is 159 ASCII, which in the Symbol font is a box such as you
describe. That type of box is typically used by Word for an "I can't print
this" character--in this case representing a font space in which there isno
defined character. I don't know that that helps at all, but there it is.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org











hi suzanne,

when I click the “Show/hide†paragraph button in Word, itreveals the
following symbol:

/ŸŸ

(the square boxes are represented by letter Y with two little dots at
the top of the letter.  The letters look like unicode (hex) 0178 in
Word.)

the little square boxes don’t go away even though I try “hide†the all
the paragraph marks in word.

thanks,

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hi suzanne,

thanks for your help. the problem is solved by using notepad or
wordpad to find the special nonprinting character i was looking for
and replace it with something unique. once i have done that, word
2003 is used to replace the unique character with a manual page break.



thanks,

pb
 
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