Microsoft KB Archive/197855

= WD97: Control Codes to Use with Find and Replace (Edit Menu) =

Article ID: 197855

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q197855





SUMMARY
You can use the following control codes and special characters with the Find and Replace commands on the Edit menu.



MORE INFORMATION
NOTE: The caret character (^) must be typed. The caret is created by pressing SHIFT+6. (Don't confuse this symbol with the CTRL key.)   Characters    String Matches --

^1        Picture (Except pictures with Float Over Text                  property) ^2        Auto-referenced footnotes ^5        Annotation mark ^9        Tab ^11       New line ^12       Page OR section break ^13       Carriage return ^14       Column break ^19       Opening field brace (when the field braces are visible) ^21       Closing field brace (when the field braces are visible) ?         Question Mark ^?        Any single character (not valid in the Replace box) ^-        Optional hyphen ^~        Non-breaking hyphen ^^        Caret character ^#        Any digit ^$        Any letter ^&        Contents of Find What box (Replace box only) ^+        Em Dash (not valid in the Replace box) ^=        En Dash (not valid in the Replace box) ^u8195    Em Space Unicode character value search (not valid in the Replace box) ^u8194    En Space Unicode character value search (not valid in the Replace box) ^a        Comment (not valid in the Replace box) ^b        Section Break (not valid in the Replace box) ^c        Replace with Clipboard contents (Replace box only) ^d        Field ^e        Endnote Mark (not valid in the Replace box) ^f        Footnote Mark (not valid in the Replace box) ^g        Graphic (Does not find graphics with the Float                     Over Text property) ^l        New line ^m        Manual Page Break       ^n         Column break ^t        Tab ^p        Paragraph mark ^s        Non-breaking space ^w        White space (space, non-breaking space, tab; not valid                  in the Replace box) ^nnn      Where "n" is an ASCII character number ^0nnn     Same as above, but uses ANSI characters (ALT+nnn PC only) (Produces ASCII on Macintosh) ^unnnn    Word 97 Unicode character search where "n" is a decimal number corresponding to the Unicode character value. NOTE: To search for a specific field, such as an XE (Index Entry) field, use the following syntax:

^19

For more information about finding and replacing special characters, click the Index tab in Help, and type:

special characters, finding

Double-click the selected topic to go to the "Examples of special characters and document elements you can find and replace" topic.

Additional query words: ctrl key commands keystroke

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