change unknown glyph (crossed red...

Hi.



I have problem mentioned in subject. I have more than 1000 of those unknown symbols and need to change them lets say in an arrow or bullet. But when i go in find replace i cant find this symbol. I tried to paste this unknown symbol/glyph But with no result.

The doc was imported from word and everything else is imported ok. How to change tis symbol unknown to this normal one.



Hope you understand my problem



THX
change unknown glyph (crossed red...
What version of InDesign are you using? In CS3 and CS4 you can use

find/change glyph (the third tab in the find/change dialog.
change unknown glyph (crossed red...
I am using CS3. I have tried with find/change glyph but with no luck. I cant find this unknown glyph crossed square marked in red. As you know Indesign always displays characters in red if it cant fin the font to substitute. And every glyph has its ID but i cant find one for this unknown crossed square.



I even tried to paste this unknown glyph to the field of find/change but again with no luck.

Try changing the font to Times New Roman or Arial. Is it still pink? If

not what character does it show?

I tried it and is is not working. It shows only square in red.

If I go back to word i can see this glyph (font times new roman glyph 25BA right pointing arrow).



Just for testing i tried to paste directly this glyph from word to ID and then i can see this arrow. Hmmm probably some sort of bug.

That's Word, with its built-in 'smart' character replacement. The arrow is not available in Times New Roman.



I usually test unknowns not with Arial, but with Arial MS Unicode -- that has

i lots

more characters.



%26gt;I even tried to paste this unknown glyph to the field of find/change but again with no luck.



You must mean, you got a square in the Find field? That's not a problem. In case of doubt, just search for its Unicode value directly -- ''%26lt; 25BA %26gt;'' (without the spaces).



Don't put anything in the Replace With field; set the Replace With formatting to font Symbol (preferrably, create a character style with just ''Symbol'' and use that instead). Replace All, and there are your arrows.



(Edit: Scratch ''Symbol'' -- it's NOT a right pointing arrow (that's 2192 in Symbol) -- but a 'black right-pointing pointer' (i.e., a triangle). Find a font that displays the character right and use that in the Replace field.)

THX for answers.



All solved.