DOCUMENT:Q197855  17-JUN-2002  [word97]
TITLE   :WD97: Control Codes to Use with Find and Replace (Edit Menu)
PRODUCT :Word 97 for Windows
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KEYWORDS:word97

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SUMMARY
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You can use the following control codes and special characters with the Find and
Replace commands on the Edit menu.


MORE INFORMATION
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NOTE: The caret character (^) must be typed. The caret is created by pressing
SHIFT+6. (Don't confuse this symbol with the CTRL key.)

   Characters    String Matches
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       ^1         Picture (Except pictures with Float Over Text
                  property)
       ^2         Auto-referenced footnotes
       ^5         Annotation mark
       ^9         Tab
       ^11        New line
       ^12        Page OR section break
       ^13        Carriage return
       ^14        Column break
       ^19        Opening field brace
                      (when the field braces are visible)
       ^21        Closing field brace
                      (when the field braces are visible)
       ?          Question Mark
       ^?         Any single character
                      (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^-         Optional hyphen
       ^~         Non-breaking hyphen
       ^^         Caret character
       ^#         Any digit
       ^$         Any letter
       ^&         Contents of Find What box
                  (Replace box only)
       ^+         Em Dash (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^=         En Dash (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^u8195     Em Space Unicode character value search
                     (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^u8194     En Space Unicode character value search
                     (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^a         Comment
                     (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^b         Section Break (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^c         Replace with Clipboard contents (Replace box only)
       ^d         Field
       ^e         Endnote Mark (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^f         Footnote Mark (not valid in the Replace box)
       ^g         Graphic (Does not find graphics with the Float
                     Over Text property)
       ^l         New line
       ^m         Manual Page Break


       ^n         Column break
       ^t         Tab
       ^p         Paragraph mark
       ^s         Non-breaking space
       ^w         White space (space, non-breaking space, tab; not valid
                  in the Replace box)
       ^nnn       Where "n" is an ASCII character number
       ^0nnn      Same as above, but uses ANSI characters (ALT+nnn PC only)
                  (Produces ASCII on Macintosh)
       ^unnnn     Word 97 Unicode character search where "n" is a decimal
                  number corresponding to the Unicode character value.

NOTE: To search for a specific field, such as an XE (Index Entry) field, use the
following syntax:

   ^19<field name>

For more information about finding and replacing special characters, click the
Index tab in Help, and type:

   special characters, finding

Double-click the selected topic to go to the "Examples of special characters and
document elements you can find and replace" topic.

Additional query words: ctrl key commands keystroke

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Keywords          : word97 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : :
Issue type        : kbhowto

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