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  • 30 April 2024
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I am attempting to publish a KB article instructing users to dial *97 to access their voicemail.  Putting asterisks in the body of the article are causing formatting issues.  Is there an easy solution to have the article show a “*” instead of affecting formatting?

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Best answer by spsalexs 30 April 2024, 21:23

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What type of formatting issues are there? I tried to replicate what I thought would be a possible problem of using bold characters and then the asterisk but was unsuccessful. At it’s core, I believe the KB system uses markdown for formatting so you should be able to escape characters with the “\” character.  Maybe this article could help? https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax

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@ajgreenawalt Random question but does this happen with different types of Asterisks  ( see below )?

 

https://www.keynotesupport.com/internet/special-characters-asterisks.shtml

 

Trying to replicate how this is happening, and potential fixes. 

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What type of formatting issues are there? I tried to replicate what I thought would be a possible problem of using bold characters and then the asterisk but was unsuccessful. At it’s core, I believe the KB system uses markdown for formatting so you should be able to escape characters with the “\” character.  Maybe this article could help? https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax

 

Because I reference feature codes starting with an asterisk multiple times in the article, it was placing everything between them in italics.  Typing the feature code as "\*97” publishes as “*97”.

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@ajgreenawalt I am so glad you were able to figure it out!

Thank you @spsalexs and @ADeLacy for the help on this one.

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