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I am working in the Story Editor window and have come across a non-printing character I can not identify. It seems to be an artifact from a Word doc that was formatted unusually and seems to be causing havoc with performance. See screenshot:
What is it, and how do I seach and replace it?
Thanks! CWS
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CreativePro.com offers a number of publications. One of them is a "Guide to Special Characters in InDesign."
That appears to be a Cross-reference Destination.
It would be used in InDesign if you are using the Cross-References panel. If you're not using cross-references you can probably just delete it.
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PS: The guide can be downloaded if you sign up for a CreativePro.com membership—which offers many benefits! (I don't work for them, but write for them occasionally.)
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Thanks, Steve. I really appreciate the help. The guide actually says they’re a text anchor, something I’ve never used. What I can’t figure out is wjhat search expression to use for the character so I can use Find-and-Replace to delete all 300+ of them. CWS
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I can't find a way to get Find/Change to see them (tried copy/paste into the dialog), but you can try opening the Hyperlinks Panel and using the menu command to Delete Unused Destinations.
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Will do. Thanks!
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This is actually something that Uwe @Laubender has posted about a great deal. There's a good summary in this thread. The upshot is that you can use the Find tab of the Find/Change dialog (NOT the GREP tab) and search for <FEFF>. However, he advises against doing a Replace All, because there are acutally a number of possible things that a <FEFF> glyph can do besides being a text anchor.
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Joel meand the TEXT tab...
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Aw, jeez. Thank you Peter, yes, I mean the TEXT tab. This one: