Here's one way:
- Show hidden characters so you can see what you're doing.
- With the cursor at the start of the document, go to Insert Symbol
Special Characters and insert a no-width optional break in the document.
Close the dialog.
- Select the break character (a small rectangle inside a larger rectangle)
and cut it to the clipboard.
- Open the Replace dialog. Type a slash in the Find What box. Type the
expression /^c in the Replace With box -- the ^c is the code for
"clipboard contents". Click the Replace All button.
For other info, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...Characters.htm.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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wpfan wrote:
I would like to use "find and replace" with a special character
symbol, the "no width optional break." Can this be done? I have
almost 200 occurrences of two long words with a slash (/) between
them and no spaces in one document, and I work on documents like this
a lot. It doesn't wrap well with the margins unless I can somehow
get a space after the (/) mark that doesn't look like a space. Any
ideas?
Thank you!