alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (06/13/88)
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Omnis is sort of nasty that way. The best way around it is to get QUED/M from
Paragon Software. Great Stuff!! Just open the file and say 'Zap Gremlins'.
This will do the trick.
However, once upon a time there was a desparate Omnis user who didn't have
Qued. So he wrote a very simple program in LS Pascal to get rid of control
chars. for him. If you can program at all you can figure out how to do this.
The reason you can't fix the problem in Word et al. is that many characters
with MacAscii codes of 1-26 (i.e., control characters) display as zero-
width spaces, so the only way to find them is to arrow-key through the entire
file and look for a keystroke that doesn't advance the insertion point.
Actually, there is another way. Edit the geneva font (or whatever you will
be using in Word) so that none of its characters are zero-width. Then they
will show up and you'll be able to look for them in word.
Unless you absolutely have to, don't use Omnis. It's overkill for your needs.
/Alexis
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