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How to Find a 'Printing' Paragraph symbol using 'Find & Replace'
A 'printing' paragraph symbol cannot be pasted in the Find or Replace
fields. Does anyone know the code for a 'printing' paragraph symbol that can work in the Find and Replace fields? Regards, AN |
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How to Find a 'Printing' Paragraph symbol using 'Find & Replace'
The printable pilcrow character, ¶ , is inserted by holding down the
Alt key while typing the digits 0182 on the number pad (having turned on NumLock). You can also find one in the Insert Symbol dialog. The Alt+0182 combination works directly in the Find/Replace dialog, or you can place one in the text, copy it to the clipboard, and paste (using Ctrl+V) into the dialog. If you want the nonprinting paragraph mark, the code for that in the Find/Replace dialog is ^p . More reading: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...Characters.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:39:06 -0700, "A.N." wrote: A 'printing' paragraph symbol cannot be pasted in the Find or Replace fields. Does anyone know the code for a 'printing' paragraph symbol that can work in the Find and Replace fields? Regards, AN |
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How to Find a 'Printing' Paragraph symbol using 'Find & Replace' & wildcard
Thank you for the reply Jay. When using wildcards, what is the correct code
for paragraph? ^p is not working on 2002. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The printable pilcrow character, ¶ , is inserted by holding down the Alt key while typing the digits 0182 on the number pad (having turned on NumLock). You can also find one in the Insert Symbol dialog. The Alt+0182 combination works directly in the Find/Replace dialog, or you can place one in the text, copy it to the clipboard, and paste (using Ctrl+V) into the dialog. If you want the nonprinting paragraph mark, the code for that in the Find/Replace dialog is ^p . More reading: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...Characters.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:39:06 -0700, "A.N." wrote: A 'printing' paragraph symbol cannot be pasted in the Find or Replace fields. Does anyone know the code for a 'printing' paragraph symbol that can work in the Find and Replace fields? Regards, AN |
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How to Find a 'Printing' Paragraph symbol using 'Find & Replace' & wildcard
In the Find What box when using wildcards, use ^13 to represent the
paragraph mark. The ^p code continues to work in the Replace With box. See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm for other codes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 17:33:27 -0700, "A.N." wrote: Thank you for the reply Jay. When using wildcards, what is the correct code for paragraph? ^p is not working on 2002. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . The printable pilcrow character, ¶ , is inserted by holding down the Alt key while typing the digits 0182 on the number pad (having turned on NumLock). You can also find one in the Insert Symbol dialog. The Alt+0182 combination works directly in the Find/Replace dialog, or you can place one in the text, copy it to the clipboard, and paste (using Ctrl+V) into the dialog. If you want the nonprinting paragraph mark, the code for that in the Find/Replace dialog is ^p . More reading: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...Characters.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:39:06 -0700, "A.N." wrote: A 'printing' paragraph symbol cannot be pasted in the Find or Replace fields. Does anyone know the code for a 'printing' paragraph symbol that can work in the Find and Replace fields? Regards, AN |
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