Word 2007 - hidden characters :: search & replace impact

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Barry

We have recently upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

It seems that there are hidden characters in our older documents - created
with Word 95/97 - that are causing search & replace and spell check to fail.

Is anyone familiar with this problem? Is there a root cause? Is there a
workaround? Will this be addressed in an imminent patch coming from
Microsoft?

Thanks,
Barry
 
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Beth Melton

Barry said:
We have recently upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

It seems that there are hidden characters in our older documents - created
with Word 95/97 - that are causing search & replace and spell check to
fail.

Is anyone familiar with this problem? Is there a root cause? Is there
a
workaround? Will this be addressed in an imminent patch coming from
Microsoft?
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Can you give us an example of the characters and proofing failures?

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Beth Melton
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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
 
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Barry

These hidden characters are most often ^ and {. On some documents when we
do a search & replace or a spell check - the process never returns a
completion. It hangs or loops.
 
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Beth Melton

Is there another character followed by the ^? The caret (^) isn't a hidden
character, unless it's formatted as hidden in the Font formatting? Can you
email me a sample document so I can take a look? To obtain a valid email
address remove NoSpam4Me from [email protected]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
 
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