Microsoft KB Archive/27883

Word: Find or Change Support of Special Characters

PSS ID Number: Q27883 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh to enter special characters in the Find What box or Replace With (Change To in 4.0 and 3.0x) box in the Find and Replace (Change in 4.0 and 3.0x) commands, type in the appropriate “code,” as indicated below [the caret (^) is created by pressing SHIFT+6]:

Word versions 5.0 and 5.1
Any codes listed below can be typed in or selected from the Special drop down menu found in the Find or Replace commands.

Word versions 4.0 and 3.0x
To Find the Following Type the Following ——————— ——————

An unspecified character ? A question mark (?) ^? White space ^w A section mark or page break ^d

To Find or Replace with the Following Type the Following ————————————- ——————

A tab mark ^t A paragraph mark ^p An end-of-line mark ^n A caret or circumflex symbol (^) ^^ A formula character ^

A graphic ^1 A footnote reference ^5 Any specific character ^# (where “#” is the ASCII value for that specific character)

= MORE INFORMATION =

Use “?” if you are unsure exactly how a word is spelled. For example, “?nsure” finds “ensure” and “insure.”

White space includes any number and combination of spaces, tab marks, nonbreaking spaces, end-of-line marks, paragraph marks, section marks, and manually inserted page break marks.

To replace a selection with a page break, use “^d” in the Change To dialog box. To replace a selection with a section break, enter a section break in your document, highlight it, copy it, and in the Change To dialog box, enter “^c” to replace the selection with the contents of the Clipboard.

If you specify search text without optional hyphens, Word finds all matching text, including text containing optional hyphens. If the search text includes optional hyphens, their positions must exactly match the positions in the document text. For example, if your search text is “type-writer”, Word finds only “type-writer” (that is, “type”, optional hyphen, “writer”). However, it does not find “typewrit-er” or “type-writer” when the hyphen is a normal or nonbreaking hyphen.

If Hide Paragraphs is in effect, nonbreaking spaces, tab marks, paragraph marks, end-of-line marks, and optional hyphens are not visible. Word finds these invisible characters by selecting the space they occupy.

The ASCII code of a character is found by selecting Symbol from the Insert menu or by selecting the character and pressing COMMAND+OPTION+Q in 4.0 or 3.0x. The code number appears in the lower-left corner of the screen where the page number is usually indicated.

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