"Paragraph character" in find and replace

[GT-Force]

In Word 2003, when you go to Replace (or Find), choose more by pressing more button, opening the options at the bottom and from there, choose "Paragraph character" from special button, it inserts ^v, instead of ^p as the search term, and obviously, fails to find the paragraph marks. Then, I realized that there is another choice as "Paragraph mark" which inserts the correct search term and does the job
After this, I realized that you can insert the paragraph mark character into your documents as a printable character, and the special search term ^v, which is "Paragraph character", finds that printable character
It is funny to see that MS tried to improve Word's find and replace function by including the symbol for the "Paragraph character" in the selection menu, but by doing so, they also introduced a confusion, resulting in not being able to do what one wants to do
Just writing this, so that, people who may trip into the same confusion may find their answers readily.

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm afraid that terminology is often confusing in word
processing. For example, consider the term "outline level", which
refers to TOC level, numbering level, and heading level.

Stefan Blom

In Word 2003, when you go to Replace (or Find), choose more by

pressing more button, opening the options at the bottom and from
there, choose "Paragraph character" from special button, it
inserts ^v, instead of ^p as the search term, and obviously,
fails to find the paragraph marks. Then, I realized that there is
another choice as "Paragraph mark" which inserts the correct
search term and does the job.

After this, I realized that you can insert the paragraph mark

character into your documents as a printable character, and the
special search term ^v, which is "Paragraph character", finds
that printable character.

It is funny to see that MS tried to improve Word's find and

replace function by including the symbol for the "Paragraph
character" in the selection menu, but by doing so, they also
introduced a confusion, resulting in not being able to do what
one wants to do.

Just writing this, so that, people who may trip into the same

confusion may find their answers readily.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm sorry you were confused, but I'm excited to know that it is now possible
to search for a pilcrow!

In Word 2003, when you go to Replace (or Find), choose more by pressing

more button, opening the options at the bottom and from there, choose
"Paragraph character" from special button, it inserts ^v, instead of ^p as
the search term, and obviously, fails to find the paragraph marks. Then, I
realized that there is another choice as "Paragraph mark" which inserts the
correct search term and does the job.

After this, I realized that you can insert the paragraph mark character

into your documents as a printable character, and the special search term
^v, which is "Paragraph character", finds that printable character.

It is funny to see that MS tried to improve Word's find and replace

function by including the symbol for the "Paragraph character" in the
selection menu, but by doing so, they also introduced a confusion, resulting
in not being able to do what one wants to do.

Just writing this, so that, people who may trip into the same confusion

may find their answers readily.

 

[Klaus Linke]

I'm sorry you were confused, but I'm excited to know that it is
now possible to search for a pilcrow!

It wouldn't have been a big problem but for the fact that you can't copy the
¶ pilcrow into a dialog (or "PasteSpecial" as plain text).

This looks like a plain, simple bug, yet it never gets fixed.

The "not" sign ¬ shares the same problem.

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's the reason I have the pilcrow saved as a signature file in Outlook
Express: I got tired of having to start Character Map whenever I wanted to
copy/paste a pilcrow into a NG post!