Hi Kathy
This forum is for programming Office 2013 (beta) programs using a new technology. So it's not a very good place for you to ask your question. Try here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word
Unfortunately, it's not possible to move questions from MSDN to Answers, so you will need to re-post. When you post, would you be able to show what the "ascii character" is? It will probably also help people if you can describe what kind of data source this
is (Word document, Excel sheet, Access database, whatever).
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP