Find and Replace degree symbol

[rjgreer]

When I copy some things from the net to Word, I get a lot of what appear to
be degree symbols before words. How can I use Find and Replace to replace
these? I don't know how to put the degree symbol in the first line in Find
and Replace.

 

[Jezebel]

Copy it from the body of the document and paste it into the Find box.

You can enter a degree symbol using Alt-0176, but the character you are
seeing might well be something else.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you're seeing is Word's representation of a nonbreaking space. HTML
doesn't respect multiple ordinary spaces; it just treats all strings of
spaces as a single space unless the additional ones are nonbreaking spaces.
Consequently, people who want two spaces between sentences, for example,
have to use one nonbreaking space. Word documents pasted to the Web do this
automatically (and tab characters are also converted to strings of
nonbreaking spaces). For more on the representation of nonprinting
characters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

 

[Joe McGuire]

Unless you specifically want to preserve the fonts and formatting you are
copying, you can avoid all the strange characters by using Paste Special,
and selecting text or unformatted text.

 

[rjgreer]

Thanks for your reply. I looked at the document you referred to, and found
that by entering Ctrtl-Shift-Spacebar into the Find What space, the symbol
showed up, and by putting nothing in the Replace With space, it got rid of
all the symbols.
Thanks again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's one way; you can also search for ^s (Word's code for a nonbreaking
space).