How to Find a 'Printing' Paragraph symbol using 'Find & Replace'

[A.N.]

A 'printing' paragraph symbol cannot be pasted in the Find or Replace
fields. Does anyone know the code for a 'printing' paragraph symbol that can
work in the Find and Replace fields?

Regards,

AN

 

[Jay Freedman]

The printable pilcrow character, ¶ , is inserted by holding down the
Alt key while typing the digits 0182 on the number pad (having turned
on NumLock). You can also find one in the Insert > Symbol dialog. The
Alt+0182 combination works directly in the Find/Replace dialog, or you
can place one in the text, copy it to the clipboard, and paste (using
Ctrl+V) into the dialog.

If you want the nonprinting paragraph mark, the code for that in the
Find/Replace dialog is ^p .

More reading:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FindingSpecialCharacters.htm

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[A.N.]

Thank you for the reply Jay. When using wildcards, what is the correct code
for paragraph? ^p is not working on 2002.

 

[Jay Freedman]

In the Find What box when using wildcards, use ^13 to represent the
paragraph mark. The ^p code continues to work in the Replace With box.
See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm for other codes.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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