Topic: Searching for Special Characters

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Finding Fields Fields allow you to add all sorts of dynamic information to your document. If you need to find those fields, there are several ways you can accomplish the task. This tip covers shortcuts and searching techniques you can use. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Pay Attention to Case When Searching for ASCII Codes Word’s Find and Replace feature allows you to search for any ASCII code. Despite what you may think, searching for an ASCII code isn’t case-sensitive. If you don’t take the proper precautions, your ASCII code searches could return more than you bargained for. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Quick and Dirty Paragraph Count Need to know how many paragraphs are in a document? You can use Word’s Find and Replace feature to get a count quickly. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Quickly Changing Tab Alignment How to replace tab stops using search and replace. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for ASCII and ANSI Characters The Find and Replace feature in Word is very powerful. It even allows you to search for any ASCII or ANSI characters, by code. This tip explains how to enter those codes so the characters can be easily found. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Breaks You already know that you can add breaks to your document, to force some sort of change to the text. If your document is quite long, finding these breaks can be a chore unless you know how to use Find and Replace to locate these special characters. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Footnote and Endnote Marks Do you want to quickly search for any footnote or endnote marks in your document? Word makes it easy using the standard Find and Replace dialog box. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Searching for Non-Black Text Searching for text having (or not having) specific formatting is generally pretty easy. It is more difficult to search for text that is not a particular color. This tip explains how you can find just want you want by using a macro. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Searching for Optional Hyphens Do you need to find the optional hypens automatically inserted in your document by the hyphenation process? Here's how. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Paragraph Marks and Line Breaks Paragraph marks (created by pressing Enter) and line breaks (created by pressing Shift+Enter) are two of the most common special characters in a document. Word allows you to easily search for these characters, using the method described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Special Characters The Find and Replace feature of Word is very powerful. It includes the capability to search for special characters that aren’t stored in “plain text.” This tip documents several of those special characters. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Special Hyphens Word allows you to use several different types of hyphens in your documents, for various purposes. When searching, you may want to find specific types of hyphens; this tip shows you how. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Tabs Tabs don’t normally show up in your printed document, but Word allows you to still search for them. All you need to do is use the special code (^t) recognized by Word as a tab character. This tip explains how to utilize that code when searching. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Text that Does Not Have a Certain Format You can easily use Find and Replace to find text that has a particular format to it. Most people don’t know you can use the same tool to find text that does not have a particular format. Here’s how to do this type of search. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Searching for White Space White space permeates our documents, and sometimes you’ll need to search for that white space. Word makes it easy to select this special class of information through the use of the Find and Replace feature. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Special Characters in Pattern Matching The most powerful search engine in Word use pattern matching, but the way you specify special characters in a pattern-matching search is different than in a regular search. This tip examines some of the differences that can affect how you do your searching. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Special Differences when Searching The special characters you can search for differ based on the type of search you are doing. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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