Yes you can put the character into a find. I also do this a lot and replace
with nothing. There are lot of different special characters and rather than
search and replace I start with going to notepad because it will get rid of
multiple different types of special character in one step.

You asked if it can be detected.

"James Silverton" wrote:

Jeff wrote on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:10:05 -0700:

JI I often find symbols in MS documents I'd like to remove or
JI replace with something else.

JI Is there a way to detect the underlying code of a symbol or
JI special character to use for "Search and Replace"?

Can't you copy the character into the Find box?

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not