Q197855: WD97: Control Codes to Use with Find and Replace (Edit Menu)

Article: Q197855
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): word97
Last Modified: 17-JUN-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SUMMARY
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You can use the following control codes and special characters with the Find and
Replace commands on the Edit menu.


MORE INFORMATION
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NOTE: The caret character (^) must be typed. The caret is created by pressing
SHIFT+6. (Don't confuse this symbol with the CTRL key.)

  Characters    String Matches
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      ^1         Picture (Except pictures with Float Over Text
                 property)
      ^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
                     (when the field braces are visible)
      ^21        Closing field brace
                     (when the field braces are visible)
      ?          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)
                 (Produces ASCII on Macintosh)
      ^unnnn     Word 97 Unicode character search where "n" is a decimal
                 number corresponding to the Unicode character value.

NOTE: To search for a specific field, such as an XE (Index Entry) field, use the
following syntax:

  ^19<field name>

For more information about finding and replacing special characters, click the
Index tab in Help, and type:

  special characters, finding

Double-click the selected topic to go to the "Examples of special characters and
document elements you can find and replace" topic.

Additional query words: ctrl key commands keystroke

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Keywords          : word97 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : :
Issue type        : kbhowto

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