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The MS help page
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA012303921033.aspx?pid=CH100626221033#7)
tells me that I should be able to do a search in Word (I'm using both Ofice
Pro 2003 SP3 and Office Pro 2007) for a Unicode character by its code, using
the syntax ^Unnnn (where nnnn is the Unicode codepoint) with Use Wildcards
turned off.
For the life of me, I have not been able to get this to work. I only get
"^U is not a valid special character for the Find What box" when I try this
method. I've tried every alternate I can think of, ^unnnn, u+nnnn, U+nnnn,
with and without quotation marks, with and without matching
fullwidth/halfwidth characters, and about twenty more permutations of various
search options enabled and disabled, and either get a variation on that "not
a valid special character" error, or just a "The search item was not found"
when Word's not even recognizing that I'm telling it to look for some kind of
special character code.
What method actually works? Does the fact that I have several non-default
multi-language options enabled in Word make a difference?
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA012303921033.aspx?pid=CH100626221033#7)
tells me that I should be able to do a search in Word (I'm using both Ofice
Pro 2003 SP3 and Office Pro 2007) for a Unicode character by its code, using
the syntax ^Unnnn (where nnnn is the Unicode codepoint) with Use Wildcards
turned off.
For the life of me, I have not been able to get this to work. I only get
"^U is not a valid special character for the Find What box" when I try this
method. I've tried every alternate I can think of, ^unnnn, u+nnnn, U+nnnn,
with and without quotation marks, with and without matching
fullwidth/halfwidth characters, and about twenty more permutations of various
search options enabled and disabled, and either get a variation on that "not
a valid special character" error, or just a "The search item was not found"
when Word's not even recognizing that I'm telling it to look for some kind of
special character code.
What method actually works? Does the fact that I have several non-default
multi-language options enabled in Word make a difference?