WD2000: Special Characters You Can Use with Find and Replace

• Microsoft Word 2000

SUMMARY

You can use the special characters listed in the "More Information" section of this article 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 on most keyboards. (Do not confuse this symbol with the CTRL key.)

   Characters    String Matches
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

       ^1         Picture (Except pictures with a wrapping style other
                  than "In line with text)

       ^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 (use only when you are viewing field
                  codes)

       ^21        Closing field brace (use only when you are viewing field
                  codes)

       ?          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)

       ^unnnn     Word 2000 Unicode character search where "n" is a decimal
                  number corresponding to the Unicode character value. 

REFERENCES

For more information about finding and replacing special characters, click Microsoft Word Help on the Help menu, type find and replace characters in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics returned.

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Keywords : kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo