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Joseph McGuire
 
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I am having a bizarre time using Search or Search and Replace in a Word
document that came to me originally as a text document, which I opened and
reformatted and saved in Word. The For most of the document--82 pages, 25
lines per page--every line ends with a HRt/Paragraph Mark. I had added a
few prior to and after those 82 pages. If I search Word will find all the
Paragraph Marks I inserted before and after the 82 pages, but it will skip
all 2050 or so in those 82 pages. Can anybody explain why this has
happened? Is there something "invisible" about some paragraph marks but not
others? I have used Search and replace a lot and have never seen this
issue.
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Joe McGuire



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Jezebel
 
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Are you sure they are paragraph marks rather than line feeds?

Ifd that's not it, select one of these pestilential marks, switch to VBA,
and in the immediate window type

? Asc(Selection)

That will give you the character number. You can Find the character by
enabling wildcards and searching for ^nnn where nnn is the character number.







"Joseph McGuire" wrote in message
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I am having a bizarre time using Search or Search and Replace in a Word
document that came to me originally as a text document, which I opened and
reformatted and saved in Word. The For most of the document--82 pages, 25
lines per page--every line ends with a HRt/Paragraph Mark. I had added a
few prior to and after those 82 pages. If I search Word will find all the
Paragraph Marks I inserted before and after the 82 pages, but it will skip
all 2050 or so in those 82 pages. Can anybody explain why this has
happened? Is there something "invisible" about some paragraph marks but
not
others? I have used Search and replace a lot and have never seen this
issue.
--


Joe McGuire





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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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As Jezebel says, they may be line breaks. But more often they are something
that is really a sort of line break (or line feed) but represented as a
paragraph break (using the ¶ symbol if you display nonprinting characters).
In such cases, searching for ^13 (rather than ^p or ^l) will usually find
them.

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"Joseph McGuire" wrote in message
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I am having a bizarre time using Search or Search and Replace in a Word
document that came to me originally as a text document, which I opened and
reformatted and saved in Word. The For most of the document--82 pages, 25
lines per page--every line ends with a HRt/Paragraph Mark. I had added a
few prior to and after those 82 pages. If I search Word will find all the
Paragraph Marks I inserted before and after the 82 pages, but it will skip
all 2050 or so in those 82 pages. Can anybody explain why this has
happened? Is there something "invisible" about some paragraph marks but

not
others? I have used Search and replace a lot and have never seen this
issue.
--


Joe McGuire




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Joseph McGuire
 
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Indeed they seem to be ^13's cleverly disguised as paragraph marks. I am
sure there is a reason for that silliness!


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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As Jezebel says, they may be line breaks. But more often they are

something
that is really a sort of line break (or line feed) but represented as a
paragraph break (using the ¶ symbol if you display nonprinting

characters).
In such cases, searching for ^13 (rather than ^p or ^l) will usually find
them.

--
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.

"Joseph McGuire" wrote in message
...
I am having a bizarre time using Search or Search and Replace in a Word
document that came to me originally as a text document, which I opened

and
reformatted and saved in Word. The For most of the document--82 pages,

25
lines per page--every line ends with a HRt/Paragraph Mark. I had added

a
few prior to and after those 82 pages. If I search Word will find all

the
Paragraph Marks I inserted before and after the 82 pages, but it will

skip
all 2050 or so in those 82 pages. Can anybody explain why this has
happened? Is there something "invisible" about some paragraph marks but

not
others? I have used Search and replace a lot and have never seen this
issue.
--


Joe McGuire






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