Find and replace not working

[Martin]

Word 2003 under XP Pro. All updates installed.

In the "old days" I used to be able to find and replace line breaks and
other non-printing characters. It seems that this isn't working very well.

For example, if I have:

text1
text2

....and I highlight from just after "text1" to just before "text2" I used to
be able to ctrl-c and ctrl-p this into the find-and-replace dialog and
replace it with, say, a comma followed by a space. this might be useful if
you want to concatenate a bunch of words copied in from an Excel sheet.

Well, I can't seem to be able to paste these characters into the dialog.
I've tried everything. Making the visible. Using the newfangled Orifice
clipboard, etc. I can't replace line breaks.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Martin

 

[Martin]

Yes, I did.

However, the real problem here is that you can't seem to copy and paste from
the document into the "find" textbox in the dialog. Let's say I have an end
of line followed by three tabs and six spaces that I want to replace with a
comma. In the past it was very easy to simply highlight that, copy, ctrl-h,
paste, type the comma an "replace all". I don't think you can do that any
more.