Well that's useful to know. Thanks Suzanne!

I still can't Find the auto page break that comes before my Heading 1. And
if I Find-and-Replace on the style Heading 1, the text itself gets replaced
(as I'd expect) with my clipboard contents.

Is there some special character that can go in the Replace box that means
'whatever text was found during the Find.' Then I could put '^c' followed by
this special character, and I'd be there.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can actually use a section break as the replacement text if you (a)
select and copy a section break formatted as desired (that is, Next Page,
Odd Page, etc.), and (b) use ^c (Clipboard contents) in the "Replace with"
box.

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"John in Saratoga" wrote in
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In order to force footnotes to begin renumbering, I want to automatically
put
a section break before every heading with Heading 1 style.

A style can have a 'page break before' but not a 'section break before'. I
thought I could set 'page break before' and then do a find-and-replace,
replacing every page break with a section break. But that fails for two
reasons. You can't search on these automatic page breaks, and even if you
could, you can't put 'section break' in a replace field.

Anyone have an idea how to do this?