Find not Finding

[Petersen, Oran C]

On this forum a few months ago I learned that the problematic MS Word
"hidden control character" can be found and destroyed by typing "\x0d"
(zero, not Oh) in the find/change box and changing it to nothing. This,
for my purposes, seems to do the same thing as the MIF cycle described
below, and is faster. You will most likely find one of these characters
for each paragraph in the document. Whenever I open a Word file in
Frame, or paste content from Word, this find/change operation is the
first thing I do, and all is good after.

A second trick I often use is to "Paste Special" text, which also strips
the garbage from the incomer and keeps your Frame file cleaner.

Oran

Message: 12
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:51:23 -0400
From: "Beck, Charles" <Charles.Beck at infor.com>
Subject: RE: Find not finding
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Hi again all, 
 
Just wanted to let you all know that I received several replies,
including one with the correct remedy. Thought it might be of general
interest to the rest of the group. 
 
The tip of the hat goes to Alan Houser who asked whether there was any
imported MS Word content in the file. Apparently, Word content can
include hidden control characters that can interfere with the Find
function. That was the case with our problem. Saving as MIF and then
reopening and saving as *.fm resolved the problem.