Article ID: 122758
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
Character Meaning --------- ------- ^p Paragraph mark ^e Auto-numbered endnote reference mark ^d Field ^f Auto-numbered footnote reference mark ^b Section break ^w White space (one or more spaces)When Use Pattern Matching is selected, Word uses an entirely different search engine. This alternative search engine is not designed to search for the special characters listed above.
Standard Substitute Meaning
-------- ---------- -------
^p ^13 Paragraph mark (see Note 1)
^e ^2 Auto-numbered endnote reference mark
(see Note 2)
^d (see Note 3) Field
^f ^2 Auto-numbered footnote reference mark
^b ^12 Section break or page break (see Note 4)
^w <space>{1,} White space (see Note 5)
176776 WD: Searching for Special Characters When Use Wildcards Selected
Additional query words: ascii extended key caps
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