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"find" not finding formatting marks
I am trying to find manual page breaks and paragraph marks to edit them.
I have tried a "find", "find & replace" but neither has found any formatting marks. This is not correct because I have task pane on the "reveal formatting" page and "show all formatting marks" is checked. I can see the paragraph marks and page breaks in the document myself. But the "find" and "find and replace" functions are unable to find them. What is wrong? I am using word 2002 and the file type is a word document. |
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"find" not finding formatting marks
I have also just unchecked the "paragraph" mark on the toolbar. Usually this
made the paragraph marks in the document disappear but even with this "unchecked" the paragraph marks remain. Now I think I made a mistake somewhere. Please help me. "OfficeNDN" wrote: I am trying to find manual page breaks and paragraph marks to edit them. I have tried a "find", "find & replace" but neither has found any formatting marks. This is not correct because I have task pane on the "reveal formatting" page and "show all formatting marks" is checked. I can see the paragraph marks and page breaks in the document myself. But the "find" and "find and replace" functions are unable to find them. What is wrong? I am using word 2002 and the file type is a word document. |
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"find" not finding formatting marks
In the Find what: field, use ^p for paragraph marks, and ^m for manual page
breaks. Use wildcards should NOT be checked. If Ctrl+Shift+8 doesn't toggle some non-printing marks off, then they are "permanently" set to display in Tools - Options - View - Formatting marks section. When items there are not checked, Ctrl+Shift+8 (and the paragraph tool in the toolbar) toggles them on/off. When items there are checked, then the toggle will not affect the ones that are checked. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "OfficeNDN" wrote in message ... I am trying to find manual page breaks and paragraph marks to edit them. I have tried a "find", "find & replace" but neither has found any formatting marks. This is not correct because I have task pane on the "reveal formatting" page and "show all formatting marks" is checked. I can see the paragraph marks and page breaks in the document myself. But the "find" and "find and replace" functions are unable to find them. What is wrong? I am using word 2002 and the file type is a word document. |
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"find" not finding formatting marks
The Show/Hide ΒΆ button toggles between display of all formatting marks and
those you have specifically selected on the View tab of Tools | Options; go to that dialog and clear the check boxes for all the formatting marks. How were you searching for the page breaks and paragraph marks? Were you searching for ^m and ^p? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "OfficeNDN" wrote in message ... I have also just unchecked the "paragraph" mark on the toolbar. Usually this made the paragraph marks in the document disappear but even with this "unchecked" the paragraph marks remain. Now I think I made a mistake somewhere. Please help me. "OfficeNDN" wrote: I am trying to find manual page breaks and paragraph marks to edit them. I have tried a "find", "find & replace" but neither has found any formatting marks. This is not correct because I have task pane on the "reveal formatting" page and "show all formatting marks" is checked. I can see the paragraph marks and page breaks in the document myself. But the "find" and "find and replace" functions are unable to find them. What is wrong? I am using word 2002 and the file type is a word document. |
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"find" not finding formatting marks
Thank the both of you. Clearing those check boxes for those marks was
exactly what needed to be done. Now I can proceed with my work. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In the Find what: field, use ^p for paragraph marks, and ^m for manual page breaks. Use wildcards should NOT be checked. If Ctrl+Shift+8 doesn't toggle some non-printing marks off, then they are "permanently" set to display in Tools - Options - View - Formatting marks section. When items there are not checked, Ctrl+Shift+8 (and the paragraph tool in the toolbar) toggles them on/off. When items there are checked, then the toggle will not affect the ones that are checked. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "OfficeNDN" wrote in message ... I am trying to find manual page breaks and paragraph marks to edit them. I have tried a "find", "find & replace" but neither has found any formatting marks. This is not correct because I have task pane on the "reveal formatting" page and "show all formatting marks" is checked. I can see the paragraph marks and page breaks in the document myself. But the "find" and "find and replace" functions are unable to find them. What is wrong? I am using word 2002 and the file type is a word document. |
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