John in Kansas:

You said, "I've had a macro button that I added to a Word toolbar that tells me the ANSI value (decimal) for chars up to 254, but had not previously been able to get the Microsoft wonk who originally provided it back when we both were using Win98 (Word97)to update it to handle Unicode char codes, and hadn't figured out how to do it myself. (Word has deprecated using macros since the big "macro virus" scare, and objects now when you try to create or edit one. I had to do some updating to get the macro into Word 2002, but that was very minor tweaking.)"

Happens that such macros are something I'm disgustingly good with. If you want, send me a private message and you can send me that macro. I can probably (no guarantees :-) get it to recognize the Unicode values.

BB,
NightWing