Microsoft KB Archive/28662

Works: Symbols for Searching and Replacing Special Characters

PSS ID Number: Q28662 Article last modified on 06-12-1996

1.00 1.05 2.00

MS-DOS

Summary:

The following instructions for using symbols to search and replace special characters apply to Works versions 1.x and 2.00:

To Search For or Replace Type ———————— —-

Tab mark ^t Paragraph mark ^p End-of-line mark ^n Manual page break mark ^d Nonbreaking space ^s Optional hyphen ^- Nonbreaking hyphen ^~ Caret (^) ^^ Question mark (?) ^? Any ASCII character ^# (# is the ASCII number) White space ^w Any character ?

A “?” can also be used to find different words with similar spellings. For example, “Anders?n” will find both “Andersen” and “Anderson”.

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