Tip:20 Helpful Search Strings for Finding Special Characters in Word
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Searching in Word is not limited to letters, numbers, and other symbols. You might need to search for 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.
Here are 20 character strings you can enter in the search box to find special characters and other items.
| 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 |
From Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out by Ed Bott and Carl Siechert
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