You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others — especially someone from another country — that can’t be read. The text file may contain unusual. How do I convert a PDF file containing unicode characters (such as a t with a dot under it) to a Word file? I have downloaded a trial version of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro for evaluation. Encoding of fonts used properly map to Unicode. I’m seeing more and more documents that use Unicode characters for all kinds of things–fractions, Greek, Hebrew–since these characters are so easy to use in Word 2000 and 2002. You can learn more about Unicode here: Sometimes I need to find and replace these characters with something else. How to do so isn’t readily apparent, but there are actually two different methods that will work. Method 1: Unicode number. You’re probably aware that you can find ASCII characters using numeric codes. For example, to find an e with an acute accent, you could do this: 1. Click the “Edit” menu. Click “Find.” 3. In the “Find What” box, enter ^0233 (on a PC) or ^0142 (on a Mac). Click the “Find Next” button. Matematika ekonomi dan bisnis josep bintang kalangi pdf. You can learn more about this here: The procedure for finding Unicode characters is similar, but you’d use a “u” instead of a “0” in front of the number, and of course you’d need to know the Unicode decimal number for the character. ![]() You can look up Unicode numbers at Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources site here: For example, to find a small Greek alpha in Microsoft Word, you’d search for ^u945. Method 2: Copy and paste. If you can see an example of the character in your document (or insert one), you can actually copy the character and then paste it into the “Find What” box. Then just search as usual. Replacing Text with Unicode Characters Replacing text with Unicode characters can be a little trickier than finding them, as Word won’t let you use a numeric code (like ^u945) in the Replace dialog’s “Replace With” box. I’ve usually had success, however, in pasting the character into the “Replace With” box. If you can’t do that with a certain character, you may be able to follow this procedure instead: 1. Find an example of the character in your document (or insert one). Copy the character. Click the “Edit” menu. Click “Replace.” 5. In the “Find What” box, enter the text you want to find. In the “Replace With” box, enter ^c to tell Word you want to replace with the contents of the Clipboard–in other words, with the Unicode character you copied. Click the “Replace All” button. If you need to work with Unicode characters on a Macintosh, things get much tougher, but you’ll find information about doing so here: _________________________________________ READERS WRITE Last week’s newsletter bewailed the state of comments and revision tracking in Word 2002. Responding to my complaint that there is no way to make comments print as they did in earlier versions of Word, Erika Buky wrote, “It’s not much of a workaround for people with only one computer and the current version of Word, but I understand (from the vendor who supports my organization’s Word macro package) that you can import files with comments into a previous version of Word (97 or 2000), and the comments will print in the old, rational way. Still using W97/98 myself, I haven’t been able to verify this.” I tried this, and it works just as Erika said. After all of my grumbling, Meg Cox offered an alternative point of view: Don’t take my balloons! I love the balloons. I used to have a terrible time working with tracked changes showing. It was too hard to follow the final version in the middle of all that mess. But if I didn’t show changes, I would forget to toggle track changes back on when I needed to, and I’d wind up with untracked paragraphs. Everything’s much easier with the balloons, and I think much clearer for the reader–even the comments as long as they stay on the same page as the text. I agree that the balloons become less useful when the changes become denser. Word should indeed provide an easy-to-find alternative. Nancyann Ropke ([email protected]) wrote: Woody’s Office Watch has had several articles about comments and tracking in Word 2002. Go to and search for “balloons” Here are two of the articles I found.
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