DataMystic

Ah, DECIMAL 160, not Hex 160. Anyway... "\160", using Find Type "exact" does the job I want to do.

Simon, I copied and pasted your suggested code ([^<]*) into my filter and it does nothing on my system. You can check this. The line below has a hex 160 character between the > <. (Hopefully, it will survive posting...probably will because this is not an exotic character.) <span style="xfa-spac...

Follow up.... <span style="xfa-spacerun:yes"> </span> I realize experienced hands will not think this is an earth shattering discovery. My filter was searching for the exact string above, but. I couldn't get the filter to find the text in the file. Then, I noticed the space between > < did...

I made a mistake. The filter works in the trial run. I haven't tried the clipboard.

Newbie here. I want to search and replace this (exact) text with a single wordspace...

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When I run the filter on the Clipboard text, it works. When I run it on the real file, it doesn't.

Do I need to escape something?