Search for Discretionary Hyphen?

[John Huntington]

Peter Gold wrote:
> At 11:58 PM -0500 2/9/06, John Huntington wrote:
>> I have a large document I imported into FM from Word.  There are tons 
>> of imported "discretionary hyphens" distributed throughout the 
>> document, and I'd like to get rid of them.  However, I can't figure 
>> out how to get the Find/Change feature to change them.   I tried 
>> using the "Text and Character formats on clipboard" for the search 
>> field, and also searching for Any Marker, but neither of those 
>> approaches would find them.  Any suggestions?
>
> Select and copy one of them to the clipboard. You may need to zoom to 
> high magnification to select it. Paste it into the Find text box. 
> Replace with nothing.
I tried that, but it won't paste anything.

Art Campbell wrote:
> IF (<<< Note BIG If) they're the same character that FM uses, you should be able to find them by typing a backslash \ before the dash/hyphen character in the Find box: \-
>   
That did the trick!!! 


> I usually find them by selecting one and copying it to the clipboard and then using the "Text ... on clipboad" Find option. Not sure why it isn't working for you... You're doing a Copy command after selecting it, right?
>   
Yep, it was weird.

Thanks to everyone for the help!