HOW DO I ENABLE WILDCARDS?

[Larry8686]

In my doc, I have multiple instances of an apostrophe (') being replaced by
an equals sign (=). I can't get Find & Replace to correct this.
Suggestions? Thanks!

Larry

 

[JR Hester]

Couple of questions. What version of Wordâ„¢ are you using?

Are you saying that your apostrophe (') are automatically being replaced
with = symbols? Or do you WANT to find all ' and replace them with "="
symbols? Which? Find and Replace should work straight forward on find ' then
replace with =

 

[Larry8686]

Sorry. Lemme clarify. I am using Office Word 2003. When I created the
document, all was well. Then something happened which replaced all
apostrophe's with =. So the word isn't appears as isn=t. I've tried a
straight-forward Find & Replace but it says no instances can be found. It
just doesn't recognize the equal signs.

 

[JR Hester]

Apologies, I am unable to test on 2003. Works on the version. You don't by
chance have a leading or training space on your find entry do you?

 

[Jay Freedman]

That substitution is typical of a document that was created in, or partially
copied from, WordPerfect. See
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/msg/aa429a00adf50ce0.

You may have better luck finding an apostrophe formatted with WP Typographic
Symbol font and replacing it with an apostrophe formatted with Times New
Roman (or whatever your base font is).

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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