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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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Default Search and replace

I noticed that, with the Find dialog in its default center-screen location,
that list pops up (rather than down), making items at the top of the list
less obvious than those lower down. Extremes always seem to be easy to
overlook, anyway.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"jldube" wrote in message
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I KNEW that it would be something simple that I had missed. Thank you so

much
! I love this board---it always answers my questions promptly, and

accurately.

Jeannine Dube

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It's "Paragraph mark" at the very top of the list.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"jldube" wrote in message
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This worked great, and I thank you very much.

I hate to sound really ignorant, but where do I find the ^p character

in
the
replace dialog box? Is it found anywhere in the "special" section? Is

there a
list somewhere that I'm not seeing?

Thanks again for your time.

Jeannine

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Search for ^p^p and replace with a space or nothing as appropriate.

Keep
in
mind that this may reduce all the text to a single paragraph, so you

may
want to find the actual paragraph breaks first and replace them with
something distinctive that you can later replace with ^p.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"jldube" wrote in message
...
I'm using Word 2003, and recently had a problem with a document

prepared
by
someone else: the originator, instead of formatting the document

for
double
spacing, manually placed two hard returns at the end of each line.
Subsequently, I had to add some text to the document, and I did

not
put
manual returns, as I was not aware of what the originator had

done.
So,
I
had some lines that had two hard returns at the end of the line,

and
some
that had automatic returns (single-spaced). What I wanted to do

was
search
for the two hard returns, and replace them with nothing, and then

I
was
going
to select the whole document, and use a macro I've created for

double
spacing.

However, I was not able to find the character in the search dialog

box
for
the manual hard return. Does it exist? I ultimately fixed the

document
line
by line, but would like to know what to do if this situation

occurs
again.

Thank you for your time.

Jeannine Dube