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In Microsoft Word, use Then Pro tip: If you want to change something about the Chinese characters, you might be better off in the long run making a new Word style and changing all the relevant characters to that style and then adjusting the style to meet your needs. Use ———–<\/p>\n Now comes a longer explanation, which you can safely ignore if the above worked fine for you. <\/p>\n But in case the special code above didn’t work for you or if you’d like to understand this a little better, here’s some more information on how to enter Basically, what you’re searching for is a range<\/em> of characters, such as everything from A to Z. But in this case you’re going to be looking for everything from the start to the finish of Unicode’s set of graphs related to Chinese characters. Word calls this a wildcard search. Others refer to the use of wildcards as “regular expressions,” or “regex” for short.<\/p>\n Searches for ranges go in square brackets, with a hyphen between the first character and the last one, e.g. The part at the end, OK, to get those special characters in a Word document, use <\/p>\n Next, <\/p>\n If needed, repeat This time, with On my system at the moment that final character is a “halfwidth black square.” But as Unicode — and fonts — expand, the final character may be something else. Just use whatever is last and you should be fine. Just be sure to type in the square brackets, the hyphen, and the {1,} to complete the expression: In case anyone’s wondering, no, you can’t just enter Unicode code numbers, because searches for those (u^ +number) won’t work when “Use wildcards” is on. So you have to enter the characters themselves.<\/p>\n This method can be easily adapted to suit searches for Greek letters, Cyrillic, etc. <\/p>\n I hope you find it useful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently someone wrote me with a problem. She had a book-length manuscript, most of which was in English. It also had some Chinese characters interspersed throughout the text. She needed to make some alterations to just the parts in Chinese … Continue reading Ctrl+H<\/code> to bring up the Find and Replace<\/code> box. <\/p>\n\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nFind<\/code> away. That’s all there is to it. You can alter all the Chinese characters you find at the same time if you so desire. <\/p>\nReplace<\/code> → Format<\/code> → Style...<\/code>. <\/p>\n[⺀-￭]{1,}<\/code> yourself and why it works. <\/p>\n[A-Z]<\/code>. <\/p>\n{1,}<\/code>, just tells Microsoft Word to look for one or more<\/em> of the previous expression, so it will locate entire sections in Chinese characters, not just one character at a time. That will save you a lot of time and trouble. <\/p>\n\n
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Font<\/code>, select (Asian text)<\/code>.<\/li>\nSubset<\/code>, scroll down until you can select the CJK Radicals Supplement<\/code>.<\/li>\nInsert<\/code> button. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/a><\/p>\nInsert → Symbol → More Symbols<\/code>. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nFont<\/code>, still set at (Asian text)<\/code>: <\/p>\n\n
Subset<\/code>, scroll all the way down until you can select the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms<\/code>.<\/li>\nInsert<\/code> button. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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