Special character in my product name

The name of my product is supposed to have a TM and em dash
in the product name in all instances. Of course, I have had huge
problems with that. Now I finally have a .chm working on a very
limited basis, but it has changes all instances of the dash to
"&endash;".
How do I deal with this?
Can I do a search and replace to do this from RH Help?
Insert symbols and special characters in Design Editor
1. Open the topic in the Design Editor. Select a location for
the character.
2. Select Insert > HTML > Symbol.
3. Double-click the symbol.
I have about a zillion references to the product name
including the dash & tm within the project. I am importing
everything from printed documentation in Framemaker.
I have removed all the dashes and tm marks from any file
names - but do I have to do the same within all the text in the
topics?
thanks, Leisa

Hi Leisa.
For this sort of task you'd be better to use a tool designed
specifically for this. FAR and BkReplacem are two popular tools -
the latter being freeware. They work by specifying the starting and
ending HTML strings and can also use containing HTML strings as
required. Take a backup before doing anything.

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