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_Application.CleanString Method

Removes nonprinting characters (character codes 1 – 29) and special Microsoft Word characters from the specified string or changes them to spaces (character code 32).

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word (in Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function CleanString ( _
    String As String _
) As String
'Usage
Dim instance As _Application
Dim String As String
Dim returnValue As String

returnValue = instance.CleanString(String)
string CleanString(
    string String
)

Parameters

Return Value

Type: System.String

Remarks

The following characters are converted as described in this table.

Character code

Description

7 (beep)

Removed unless preceded by character 13 (paragraph), then converted to character 9 (tab).

10 (line feed)

Converted to character 13 (paragraph) unless preceded by character 13, then removed.

13 (paragraph)

Unchanged.

31 (optional hyphen)

Removed.

160 (nonbreaking space)

Converted to character 32 (space).

172 (optional hyphen)

Removed.

176 (nonbreaking space)

Converted to character 32 (space).

182 (paragraph mark)

Removed.

183 (bullet)

Converted to character 32 (space).

See Also

Reference

_Application Interface

_Application Members

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Namespace