I copied text data from a pdf document (as text).
Some of the copied data is displayed identically, but does NOT compare or sort the same. I've isolated one character from the weird data and one from the normal data, both the letter capital A (in cells C2 and D2.) The following shows that they are not the same:
Here are the corresponding formulas
This is really very weird. I've tried saving this data as Unicode with another editor and then copying it back. No difference.
Ideally, I'd like a simple transformation that would convert the actual character codes to match their displayed characters.
I'm using Office Professional Pro 14.0.7015.1000, Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit, all updates applied.