Replacing shift-enter (Word 2002)

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When I copy something into Word from the web, I often see that lines are ended with a “Shift-Enter” rather than a normal carriage return. How can I find the “Shift-Enter” character in Word usin gthe Edit-Replace menu so that I can do a replace all with a standard carriage return? There doesn’t seem to be any way to do this in Word.

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In the find box enter ^l (with a lower case L not a number 1, which means the line break you get from Shift-Enter) and in the replace box put ^p which is a paragraph mark (what you get with Enter).

Ian

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Ian has already solved your problem, but just for future reference: if you click More in the Find/Replace dialog, then click Special, you’ll get a popup list of special items you can use. Paragraph mark and manual line break are among them.

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Yeah, I know about the MORE box but I couldn’t find Shift-Enter there.

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You may also find Phil Rabichow’s star post Find/Replace Special Characters (Word) useful.

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I wasn’t sure if it was understood that what some call “shift enter” (because that’s the way you enter it) is called “manual line break” (it’s logical meaning) in the replace dialog.

Fred

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