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Thanks to David Watts who pointed me in the right direction. He
suggested Edit > Paste Special > Text instead of just Edit > Paste. That
inserted a character, but in the font surrounding it. That is, instead
of a cutesy little Wingding symbol, I got the letter I in Helvetica.
However, when I tried Edit > Paste Special > Rich Text Format, I got the
character I wanted in the character set I wanted, with no extra
characters to delete.
Thanks to all who responded.
Jo
--
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible
warning.
-- Catherine Aird
Jo Baer
Senior Technical Writer
TCF Financial Corporation
Minneapolis, Minnesota
