Word Find and replace using special codes

If you are like me, there will be times when you want to make a load of changes to the formatting of Word documents that have become quite l...

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Replacing Word's non-breaking space

After all these years, I had finally become motivated enough to want to find out just what that little degree symbol meant when Word formatt...

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Word's format painter

Microsoft Office programmes are pretty much - to mix a metaphor - the lingua franca of business. And, if we are writing a document, it is MS...

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Word codes for Find and Replace

I use Word a lot for editing text. I often import scanned text into Word, and - because importing text rarely results in clean formatting - ...

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Protecting Word document branding

Thanks to Susan Harkins at TechRepublic (2022), I found out how to protect the branding in my Word headers and footers. As we all know, cons...

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Keyboarding macrons for Te Reo

In Aotearoa there are three official languages: English, sign and Māori. In Te Reo Māori, we indicate how long the vowel - the 'standard...

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The reverse virgule

Diacriticals are interesting. I have written about the forward slash - or solidus - before ( here ), but I have not talked about the reverse...

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Creating page breaks using the pilcrow

I ran into an interesting problem a while ago where I needed to explain to an Apple Mac user how to begin each chapter on a new page in a re...

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From here to infinity - the lemniscate

Did you know what the 'proper' name for an infinity symbol was? I didn't, until earlier this year. It is a "lemniscate...

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The interrobang

The name of this diacritical is a new one on me: the interrobang, the conflation of a question mark, and an exclamation mark. Once you know ...

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Using the forward slash or solidus

Using the Solidus (Waddingham, 2014, p. 90) We should try to avoid forward slashes (solidi) in the normal run of academic writing. It is...

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Diacriticals: hyphen, n-dash and m-dash

Ah, diacriticals. They are the marks that we use to punctuate, accent and generally add flavour and emphasis to the printed word. And t...

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Newsletter Issue 83, August 2004

Sam Young Newsletter Issue 83, August 200 4 Hi guys, What is globally socially acceptable in an e...

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Newsletter Issue 60, April 2003

Sam Young Newsletter Issue 60, April 2003 Hi guys, For those of you who have one or more domain names current...

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