Hi Tim, I think the following should work in word - I've tested it in wordpad.
To find out the hex value of a character, move to the character after that character and press alt+x. The character is replaced by the hex value, and this value is selected. You can go back to the original character by pressing alt+x again. Notes: 1. normally using alt+x, is used for inserting Unicode characters using their hex value, rather than the other way round. 2. This won't word for the characters a,b,c,d,e, and f, because they're used in hex. David. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:11 am, Tim Ford <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, I have a document that has, scattered throughout, a lot of mysterious consecutive characters that I want to delete globally using Word. However, JAWS describes them only as “blank” (without the “). I vaguely recall back in my DOS days about being able to enter the ASCII number for a character to produce it. Is there a keystroke in JAWS whereby I can put my cursor on the mysterious character, and find out what it is in terms of an ASCII number, then enter that into the global search and replace? Tim Ford
