The first thing you should do with any imported or copied Word content is MIFwash it -- save the Frame file out as MIF, open that, and save as a ,FM in order to clean all the weird Word characters out.<div><br></div><div>Try that and see if it helps.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Steve Rickaby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srickaby@wordmongers.demon.co.uk" target="_blank">srickaby@wordmongers.demon.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Title says it all. Material sourced from Word (groan): I suspect gremlin characters are messing up sort.<br>
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I need to alpha-sort some 60 pp. Each entry starts with '[ref]' in left column, where 'ref' is the reference marker. When sorted on col 1, the results aren't alpha. Some sorting has taken place, but not a lot. There may be gremlins: in many lines, positioning the insert cursor at the start of the line and pressing the right arrow key does not advance the cursor past the '[' until the right arrow key is pressed again.<br>
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Copying one of the offending '<invisible character>[' pairs to the Find dialog fails to find the character pair. However, searching for '^[' with wildcards on shows that the not-sorted lines do not start with just '[', even though that's all that is visible. Equally, lines that *have* sorted ok *do* start with just '['.<br>
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So: I know why it's not working, but no how to fix it.<br>
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Helpful ideas, anyone?<br>
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FrameMaker 7.0p757 for Mac.<br>
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Steve<br>
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