wildcards should alow paragraph marks as it allows ^13

[furia]

When using wildcards, Word should allow searching for paragraph marks.
As a workaround we may use the code ^13.

Thanks.

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[Jezebel]

Find with 'Use wildcards' follows the syntax for regular expressions, which
is an external standard, non-Microsoft and pre-dates Word. *Any* character
can be represented by its code, not just character 013. This is not a
work-around but part of the standard.

 

[Jay Freedman]

What you say is true as far as it goes, but Microsoft screwed up in both
directions:

- They didn't implement regular expressions completely. For example, they
left out the ability to search for zero or more occurrences of an item --
that is, {0,} is not a valid part of a wildcard expression in VBA.

- They didn't implement the codes ^p, ^t, etc. for Find.Text in a wildcard
search, but those codes do work in the Find.Replacement.Text expression in
the same search.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP

Find with 'Use wildcards' follows the syntax for regular expressions,
which is an external standard, non-Microsoft and pre-dates Word.
*Any* character can be represented by its code, not just character
013. This is not a work-around but part of the standard.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...eb1d4f&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

 

[Jezebel]

That's true. They also use minimal matching where true REs use maximal.
Still, I'd prefer it as-is than with more bells and whistles added.