PUB: Searching for Special Characters (80311)

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Publisher for Windows, you can use the Find option to search through a document and locate occurrences of words, phrases, numbers or punctuation marks. You can also use this feature to locate certain special characters such as tabs or end-of-paragraph marks. The following table lists the valid special characters Publisher can locate.

By choosing either the Find or Replace options from the Edit menu in Publisher, you can search for any of the following special characters.

Special Character       Definition
-----------------       ----------

      ^^                A caret character (^)

      ?                 Wildcard character. For example, if
                        you want to find all occurrences of
                        the words "sing" and "ring", type ?ing

      ^?                A question mark

      ^-                An optional hyphen

      ^~                A nonbreaking hyphen

      ^n                A line break

      ^p                The end of a paragraph

      ^s                A nonbreaking space

      ^t                A tab stop

      ^w                A white space
				

For more information about using the Find and Replace commands in Publisher 1.0 or 1.0a, see pages 155-157 in the "Microsoft Publisher User's Guide." For more information about using the Find and Replace commands in Publisher 2.0 or 2.0a, see pages 161-165 in the "Microsoft Publisher User's Guide."