WD97: Wildcard "Any Char" Search Can't Find Non-printing Character

ID: Q184134

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you are in master document view, if you try to search for any character using a wildcard search, non-printing characters such as paragraph marks and section breaks are not found.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbdta word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug