Microsoft KB Archive/176776

= WD: How to Search for Special Characters When Using Wildcards =

Article ID: 176776

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q176776



SUMMARY
If you select Use Wildcards in the Find or Replace dialog box, the following special characters cannot be used in the Find What text box:   Character     Meaning -  ^e            Auto-numbered endnote reference mark ^d           Field ^f           Auto-numbered footnote reference mark ^b           Section break ^w           White space (one or more spaces) ^p           Paragraph mark When Use Wildcards is selected, Word uses an entirely different search engine. This alternative search engine is not designed to search for the special characters listed above.

To find the characters listed above when you have Use Wildcards selected, use the following substitutes in the Find What box:   Standard      Substitute        Meaning --       ---   ^e            ^2                Auto-numbered endnote reference mark (see Note 1)

^d           (see Note 2)      Field

^f           ^2                Auto-numbered footnote reference mark

^b           ^12               Section break or page break (see Note 3)

^w           {1,}       White space (see Note 4)

^p           ^13               Paragraph mark (see Note 5)

MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about this situation in earlier versions of Word, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

122758 WD: How to Search for Special Characters When Pattern Matching

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