Most of us know the Search feature in Word for letters, numbers and other symbols. However, some of us don’t know that the Search feature is used for finding line-ending codes—for instance, to eliminate repeated line breaks or to find an occurrence of text that is at the end of a paragraph. In this article, we have provided 20 character strings that we can enter in the Search Box in order to find characters and other items.
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Search String | Searches For |
^l (lowercase L) | Manual line break |
^p | Paragraph break |
^n | Column break |
^m | Manual page break |
^b | Section break |
^t | Tab character |
^w | White space (space or tab) |
^s | Nonbreaking space |
^~ | Nonbreaking hyphen |
^- | Optional hyphen |
^= | En dash (–) |
^+ | Em dash (—) |
^^ | Caret (^) |
^% | Section symbol (§) |
^v | Paragraph symbol (¶) |
^? | Any character |
^$ | Any letter |
^# | Any digit |
^e | Endnote mark |
^g | Graphic |
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