How can I search mulitple Word documents with section breaks ?

[Pete Yim]

I have over 100 Word documents, only some of them have section breaks, and I
want to replace with hard page breaks.
Is it possible to perform a file level search base on the criteria of
whether section break is deployed or not ?

 

[Pesach Shelnitz]

Hi Pete,

To search for a section break in a single file, press Ctrl+F, click More,
click Special, and click Section break. Alternatively, you can type ^b
directly in the Find what box. Then press Enter.

To replace all the section breaks in a single file by hard page breaks,
press Ctrl+H. In the Find what box, type ^b, and in the Replace with box,
type ^m. Alternatively, you can click More and then click Special to select
the special character from the list. Then click Replace All.

It is possible to perform this replacement automatically in a group of files
with a macro. Write back if you are interested in using such a macro and need
help writing it.