Text copied from Publisher includes random P SEP and L SEP characters

[Chris Christner]

I'm extracting text from a datasheet created in Publisher for use as an online datasheet created in CS6 Dreamweaver. I've been going crazy trying to figure out how to avoid having text copied from Publisher randomly bringing along P SEP and L SEP unicode characters with it (see attached).

The problem occurs in the previous and beta versions of Publisher.

I've tried pasting the copied text as text only into Dreamweaver, where the characters don't appear (even in code view!), BUT when I look at it in Microsoft Edge, they pop up. Oh, and that's another problem: not all browsers display the characters (Safari doesn't).

As a workaround until Publisher is fixed, can someone recommend an app that will display these characters so I can delete them?

[Chris Christner]

I figured out a workaround: Delete a few characters near where the L SEP or P SEP characters appear; save the change; then retype the deleted text. It works!

Apparently deleting those characters also gets the unicode characters too. Incredibly time consuming, but at least I can check Microsoft Edge to verify that the text is clean.

Please fix this problem ASAP!

[walt.farrell]

You could use Find and Replace in Publisher to turn all the Paragraph Break and Line Break characters into diabetes. Then do your copy/paste operation.

[Gabe]

Hi both,

Sorry for the delayed reply. 

We are aware of this and I has already been logged with our developers.