The No Formatting button - Turn off formatting selections. See Replacing special characters for more details. The Special button - Find and replace page and character elements such as Em dashes, tabs, or Section Breaks. The Format button - Find and replace page formatting options like Font types or colors, Paragraph formatting (left, right, center), or highlighted words. Ignore white-space characters - Ignore spacing between characters.Ignore punctuation characters - Ignore differences in hyphenation.For example, "id" returns "said" and "did". Match suffix - Works with other settings to find and replace words with common suffixes or endings.For example, "be" returns "best" and "because". Match prefix - Works with other settings to find and replace words with common prefixes or beginnings.For example, type "find", and Word will return "finds", "finding", and "found". Find all word forms (English) - Find and replace all verb tenses.RegexOptions property of a Regex instance does not reflect these inline options. For example, "there", "their", and "three". Important Note: Microsoft plans to continually add new features to Word. Sounds like (English) - Find and replace words that sound like others.For example, if you want to find "puff", Word doesn't show the words "puffed". Find Whole words only - Avoid partial matches.For example, you can find one "Wolf" and 11 words "wolf" in the document. The Ctrl + H keyboard shortcut also works here. Any combination of keystrokes separated by hyphens means Press and. Match case - Find and replace words that only match specific capitalization. Within an Excel spreadsheet, click Find & Select, and then choose either Find or Replace from the drop-down list that appears. Then select the entire contents (two lines consisting of one invisible character) of the text box (I typed command-a to do this).If the document has triple carriage returns or worse, you’ll have to run this replacement routine multiple times to eradicate them all. What if you get a document that’s already littered with double carriage returns? Search-and-replace works with white-space characters too. In the Find What box, type the word or phrase you want to locate. (Error Code: 100013) This opens Word’s Find and Replace window. Whatever time you save with the shortcut will cost you later. Switch over to the Home tab on Word’s Ribbon and then click the Replace button. But in long, structured documents, extra carriage returns create unpredictable consequences as the document is edited. “But it’s so much easier to type two carriage returns.” I know. If you want vertical space after a paragraph, use space between paragraphs. The symbols to be used are listed in detail under Words Help. It’s common to see multiple carriage returns used to add vertical space between paragraphs. This feature allows you to set complex search conditions by using special character combinations. It’s fine to use multiple carriage returns to add vertical space in emails because there’s no other way to do it.Īs with the word space, use only one carriage return at a time. (In HTML, you use a formatting tag to denote a paragraph-a carriage return has no visible effect.) The terminology has stayed with us, but on a word processor, you only use a carriage return to start a new paragraph. On electric typewriters, this lever became the carriage return key, which you’d press at the end of each line. At the end of each line, you’d push a lever to move the carriage to the beginning of the next line.
Notice that Word’s code for the nonbreaking hyphen. Click Nonbreaking Hyphen from the dropdown list. Delete any existing text or characters and then click the Special button. Click in the Replace With box to put your insertion point there. On manual typewriters, the carriage was the part on top that held the paper and scooted leftward as you typed. Click the More > button if needed to expand the Find and Replace options. Carriage returns Only when you want a new paragraph