Out of curiosity

[wiretowire68]

Recently downloaded a pdf from daily racing form formulator (I am sure many who software handicap and have more experience than I have done this) I converted the file to csv then imported the file both into google sheets and excel. My question is the latin symbols that the daily racing form uses for certain numbers and text i.e. their Beaten lengths shows up as symbols as opposed to actual 1/2, 1/4 etc. Is this a blocked code? Also, when to the Daily Racing form and they offer in pdf text and code numbers that represent each individual statistic set out in formulator. Is this provided for reference, or is that to used for spreadsheet users. Just dummy trying to figure out what to do....

[jay68802]

I think they are alt codes. "µ" and "æ" examples. "µ" is "alt" and "m" at the same time and "alt" and "z" gives you "æ". In Google sheets you can then use a substitute function to replace the symbols with numbers.