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removing character breaks in a web page

by KimW
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I just inserted some text on a web page and after publishing it I see it has a bunch of little boxes in the text. These are character breaks I think? Not sure what they are called, but I can't figure out how to remove them.
Any help?
#breaks #character #page #removing #web
  • Profile picture of the author iBBnet
    Try cutting and pasting the code into Notepad on your local computer. Sometimes, this fixes unwanted characters. It doesn't always work though... but hopefully in your case...
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Paste the text into a text editor - Notepad will do the trick in this case, you can also use a more featured editor like UltraEdit or PS Pad.

    Highlight and copy one of the "boxes", it may appear as another character in your editor but you should be able to identify it. Use the Search & Replace function to replace every instance of the "boxes" with nothing (i.e. leave the "replace" field blank).

    Another thing to look out for are single and double quotes - Word and other Rich Text editors often use opening and closing quotes. These usually translate into a question mark when you post them directly on the web.

    In future pass your text from Word into Notepad first before you paste it, it can save a lot of grief!

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author VisualWebEffects
    like mywebwork mentioned, in notepad or similar copy the boxes and when you open the search replace dialog in the replace field hit your space bar once. this way you will not have to go back and do all the word spacing after words.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Anyone willing to fix this for me for a small fee?
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  • Profile picture of the author lisag
    PM me your link and I'll take a look for oyu.
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  • Profile picture of the author warrich
    hmm that is encoding problem try utf-8
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