Word Remove Nonprintable characters

I have characters that look like little boxes in my text in Word. The text is
being brought in from a mainframe download. I want to get rid of these
characters but I can't seem to figure out how.

Jezebel
Mon Aug 22 15:54:14 CDT 2005

Work out what character(s) they represent. Select one, then switch to VBA
and in the immediate window use: ? Asc(Selection). That tells you the code
of the first character in the selection. Then use Find and Replace to delete
that character: Search for ^nnn (where nnn is the character number); replace
with nothing.




"metflunky" <metflunky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BB599345-F22A-47A5-B0E6-B84A4A11FE17@microsoft.com...
>I have characters that look like little boxes in my text in Word. The text
>is
> being brought in from a mainframe download. I want to get rid of these
> characters but I can't seem to figure out how.

metflunky
Tue Aug 23 07:59:11 CDT 2005

That's awesome, it worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

"Jezebel" wrote:

> Work out what character(s) they represent. Select one, then switch to VBA
> and in the immediate window use: ? Asc(Selection). That tells you the code
> of the first character in the selection. Then use Find and Replace to delete
> that character: Search for ^nnn (where nnn is the character number); replace
> with nothing.
>
>
>
>
> "metflunky" <metflunky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BB599345-F22A-47A5-B0E6-B84A4A11FE17@microsoft.com...
> >I have characters that look like little boxes in my text in Word. The text
> >is
> > being brought in from a mainframe download. I want to get rid of these
> > characters but I can't seem to figure out how.
>
>
>