Have you tried copying the unknown character & pasting it into the Find
box... You'll need to use Control+V to do the paste. I don't know if that
will work, but it may be worth a shot.

The basic problem is that the 'separator' between the 2 dates is an uncommon
unidentified character. Unless the suggestion works or you can find some way
to identify it accurately there isn't much you can do in Word's F&R without
some crafty criteria... Perhaps Graham Mayor, macropod, or one of the other
gurus can come up with something.

I think your best bet is going to be in FM, though. It's been years since I
worked with it, but I seem to remember an option for outputting the content
of repeating fields as separate fields. You might also consider importing
the data into Excel to see if the dates get picked up correctly... And Excel
also has a 'Text to Columns' feature.

HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 6/2/10 5:15 PM, in article ,
"Stephen Larivee" wrote:

Win XP, Word 2003

I exported a field in FileMaker Pro. It is a repeating field with two dates
in one field. I thought I could import the field into Word and find the
marker that separates one date from the next and do a Replace All and put a
Tab between the two dates and then put the dates into two different fields,
the way they belong. I have the field in Word and there is a small
rectangle between the dates. So far nothing I have used as a Find has
"found" it, except for White Space (^w), but when I do a find ^w and replace
^t, Word replaces thousands of the occurences but the demon white rectanges
remain. I even tried copying and pasting the rectange into the Find box but
that is not working.

I have a posting on a FileMaker Pro board to see if someone can show me how
to separate the dates from with FileMaker, but it seems I should be able to
do it from within Word.

Does anyone have a suggestion???