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I'm new to working with Word documents so need some basic help please. When
using the Find/Replace feature is it possible to replace with a Carriage
Return or TAB space and if so can these be associated with characters as well
in the same replace action, eg: find letter Z then replace with CR + Z or
TAB + Z.

Thanks for your help
Ian.
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Hi Ian

^p will find or replace with a paragraph mark. ^t is a tab. For a list of
the rest, in the find and replace dialog box, click More and then Special.

Depending on what you're doing, the following might help:
Cleaning up text pasted from the Web
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


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I'm new to working with Word documents so need some basic help please.
When
using the Find/Replace feature is it possible to replace with a Carriage
Return or TAB space and if so can these be associated with characters as
well
in the same replace action, eg: find letter Z then replace with CR + Z
or
TAB + Z.

Thanks for your help
Ian.



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G'Day Ian,

Unless you really _mean_ it, it is not a good idea to talk about CR - this
was an ASCII (13) character used with text terminals, and still meaningful
to programmers.

Do you mean a Paragraph Marker (the character that displays as "¶" in Word)?

In Find/Replace, click "More" and "Special" to see a list of special characters
that you may search for/replace with.

For example the:
2-character string "^p" represents a Paragraph Marker
"^t" TAB
"^l" Line break ...
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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I'm new to working with Word documents so need some basic help please. When
using the Find/Replace feature is it possible to replace with a Carriage
Return or TAB space and if so can these be associated with characters as well
in the same replace action, eg: find letter Z then replace with CR + Z or
TAB + Z.

Thanks for your help
Ian.



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Default Find/Replace with Carriage Return

Thank you very much Pat and Shauna,

That was exactly what I was looking for.

Ian.


"Pat Garard" wrote:

G'Day Ian,

Unless you really _mean_ it, it is not a good idea to talk about CR - this
was an ASCII (13) character used with text terminals, and still meaningful
to programmers.

Do you mean a Paragraph Marker (the character that displays as "¶" in Word)?

In Find/Replace, click "More" and "Special" to see a list of special characters
that you may search for/replace with.

For example the:
2-character string "^p" represents a Paragraph Marker
"^t" TAB
"^l" Line break ...
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
_______________________

"Ian" wrote in message
...
I'm new to working with Word documents so need some basic help please. When
using the Find/Replace feature is it possible to replace with a Carriage
Return or TAB space and if so can these be associated with characters as well
in the same replace action, eg: find letter Z then replace with CR + Z or
TAB + Z.

Thanks for your help
Ian.




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