Microsoft KB Archive/80311

= PUB: Searching for Special Characters =

Article ID: 80311

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
 * Microsoft Publisher 1.0a
 * Microsoft Publisher 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Publisher 2.0a
 * Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
In Microsoft Publisher for Windows, you can use the Find option to search through a document and locate occurrences of words, phrases, numbers or punctuation marks. You can also use this feature to locate certain special characters such as tabs or end-of-paragraph marks. The following table lists the valid special characters Publisher can locate.

By choosing either the Find or Replace options from the Edit menu in Publisher, you can search for any of the following special characters. Special Character      Definition -      --

^^               A caret character (^)

?                Wildcard character. For example, if                       you want to find all occurrences of                        the words &quot;sing&quot; and &quot;ring&quot;, type ?ing

^?               A question mark

^-               An optional hyphen

^~               A nonbreaking hyphen

^n               A line break

^p               The end of a paragraph

^s               A nonbreaking space

^t               A tab stop

^w               A white space For more information about using the Find and Replace commands in Publisher 1.0 or 1.0a, see pages 155-157 in the &quot;Microsoft Publisher User's Guide.&quot; For more information about using the Find and Replace commands in Publisher 2.0 or 2.0a, see pages 161-165 in the &quot;Microsoft Publisher User's Guide.&quot;

Additional query words: mspub pub10a 1.00 pub20a pub97 1.00a 2.00 2.00a 3.00 pub3

Keywords: kbinfo kbusage KB80311

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