Find on "^" fails

[Ed Brown]

I'm trying to search for a string containing an up-carat character ("^") in
a Word document, using a Range.Find.Execute command as follows:

With wdRange.Find
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Execute FindText:="^BEG"
End With

When run, this code produces ans error 5625 (no description) on the
".Execute FindText" line. If I remove the "^" character from the FindText
string, I don't get the error. How can I search for a string containing a
"^" character? I've tried escaping it, as in "\^BEG" which produces the same
error.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Ed,

To find the caret, escape it with another caret:

.Execute FindText:="^^BEG"

You can find that in "Edit > Replace > Special".

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Ed Brown]

That works great, thanks! I'll check "Edit > Replace > Special" if I have
any other similar situations.