WD: Searching for Special Characters When Use Wildcards Selected

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

If you select Use Wildcards in the Find or Replace dialog box, the following special characters cannot be used in the Find What text box:

   Character     Meaning
   ---------------------

   ^e            Auto-numbered endnote reference mark
   ^d            Field
   ^f            Auto-numbered footnote reference mark
   ^b            Section break
   ^w            White space (one or more spaces)
   ^p            Paragraph mark

To find the characters listed above when you have Use Wildcards selected, use the following substitutes in the Find What box:

   Standard      Substitute        Meaning
   --------      ----------        -------

   ^e            ^2                Auto-numbered endnote reference mark
                                   (see Note 1)

   ^d            (see Note 2)      Field

   ^f            ^2                Auto-numbered footnote reference mark

   ^b            ^12               Section break or page break (see Note 3)

   ^w            <space>{1,}       White space (see Note 4)

   ^p            ^13               Paragraph mark (see Note 5)

Notes

1. When using these substitutes, it is not possible to differentiate between endnote and footnote reference marks.

2. There is no equivalent substitute for ^d (Field).

3. When using ^12 to search for section breaks, page breaks will also be found by this pattern. Thus, ^12 is a limited substitute for ^b.

4. For the substitute of ^w (white space), "<space>" means that a space character should precede the "{1,}". Do not type out "<space>" in the Find What text box.

5. Works in Word for Windows only. There is no equivalent substitute in Word for the Macintosh.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about this situation in earlier versions of Word, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q122758
   TITLE   : WD: How to Search for Special Characters When Pattern Matching