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Text not behaving normally in Word after author edits.
scriptpreneur I guess I knew it because I have been using Word for nearly 40 years.
^13 is a represetation for ASCII Character Decimal 13, which is Carriage Return
While for a document created in Word, ^p would normally be used to find Carriage Returns, if the text originated from some other application, ^p sometimes does not work and it is necessary to use ^13.
Also, if performing a Wildcard Find and Replace, it is ^13 that must be used to file Carriage Returns (but if something is to be replaced by a Carriage Return, it is ^p that must be used.)
scriptpreneur I guess I knew it because I have been using Word for nearly 40 years.
^13 is a represetation for ASCII Character Decimal 13, which is Carriage Return
While for a document created in Word, ^p would normally be used to find Carriage Returns, if the text originated from some other application, ^p sometimes does not work and it is necessary to use ^13.
Also, if performing a Wildcard Find and Replace, it is ^13 that must be used to file Carriage Returns (but if something is to be replaced by a Carriage Return, it is ^p that must be used.)
- I'm back in trouble again! I created a file that has a lot of hard returns (shift+return), but once again can not figure out what to type into the search bar to find/replace them all.
Is there a list somewhere of them all? I could have sworn I'd seen one shortly after the excellent answer that finally solved the ^13 mystery.scriptpreneur If you click on More in the Find dialog and then on Special, you will see the following list
Shift+Return (Enter) creates a Manual Line Break for which the code is ^l which will be inserted into the Find what control when you click on Manual Line Break in the list shown above.
Of course, you need to know that Shift+Enter inserts a Manual Line Break. If you don't know that, or need to learn almost anything else, I would recomment searching in Google of Bing.
