Macro to Find special hyphen (aka "Crooked L)

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I have a document that I received from an outside source and it is hyphenated
with regular hyphens and something that looks like an L on its side. Word
isn't letting me copy and paste this crooked L into the find or replace
screen. Any ideas on how to do a macro to locate the thing?

Thanks!

Ken K. - 2191

P.S. I turned automatic hyphenation off.
 
I found the optional hyphen under the find and replace special tab, but how
do I delete the hyphen as opposed to replacing it with some other character?

Thanks.
 
Are these bent hyphens at the ends of lines? If so they are line feed
characters - search for ^l

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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No, they're conditional hyphens: ¬ (Unicode 00AC).

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Hi Kenneth,

What does Shift Delete do? That's a new one to me.

You can replace the ¬ (^- in "Find what") with nothing (in "Replace with").

Greetings,
Klaus
 
I spotted that - this is what comes from working off line - the suggestions
are often superseded by events :(

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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I don't know why the conditional hyphens can't be deleted normally, but
Shift+Delete does a Cut, so sometimes appears to effect a slightly different
deletion from just pressing Delete - for example a selected row in a table
will be removed (to the clipboard) rather than just emptied of content.
 
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