Dealing with Invalid HTML Characters

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D ealing with Invalid HTML Characters

Invalid HTML Characters are those funny squiggles and shapes that we sometimes find in text when it has been pasted into Kea from another program such as Microsoft Word.

They appear when the text contains certain characters, which the browser is unable to interprate correctly.

Typically they are produced by fancy inverted commas, apostrophes, long em dash and accents.

Here is a macro which you can download and paste into your Microsoft Word Macro Editor. This macro will change the offending characters into ones which are websafe. You can add to the macro if you come across other offenders in text you use.

Download this file characters-macro.txt
Open it in Notepad
Copy the text
Open Microsoft Word
Click on Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor
Paste the copied text directly into the new macros module in the Editor
Save it and close the Editor

To Use the Macro

Go to the Macros list and you will see the heading characters in your list
Click run to use the macro.