I’d like to set up a macro that deletes all Chinese characters in a document. (Not a character, any and all characters. But leave numbers, punctuation and Western letters alone.) I suspect it would involve some kind of script instructing to find all “full width characters.” How to do so is quite beyond me, though, and Googling hasn’t been much help. You guys have any ideas?
Does the document use Unicode? If so, find all characters in the CJK ranges and nuke them. What are you replacing them with?
And if it doesn’t use Unicode, you can find all non-standard-ASCII characters and nuke them AS LONG AS the rest of the document is in standard English and not other languages.
In find and replace, turn on “Use wildcard” (and nothing else) and find:
[!^32-^255,’]
And replace with nothing.
Sorry for the late followup – but wanted to ask: I think I figured out how to search for a single Unicode character, but it seems to only allow that when “wildcards” are off. As such, I’m wondering how is it possible to search for a range of unicode characters using the find/replace dialog box? Or is this not possible . . .
I haven’t got Word on this computer, but I’d start with this:
In the “Find and Replace” dialog box, click in the “find” box, then click “More”; click “Format…” and select “Font.” Select the Chinese font you’re trying to get rid of, and click “OK.” Click in the “Replace” box and leave it blank. Start it up and see what happens.