Find and Replace question

[Guest]

I have a long file which was taken from the web in which I would like to
replace all paragraph marks that precede by a letter: a^p, b^p etc.

How do I do it in one go? I have tried wildcards in the find and replace
window but it does not accept *^p.

Thanks.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

With Wildcards, you need to use ^13 rather than ^p in the Find what control.

See the article "Cleaning up text pasted from the Web" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm


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[Jay Freedman]

I have a long file which was taken from the web in which I would like to
replace all paragraph marks that precede by a letter: a^p, b^p etc.

How do I do it in one go? I have tried wildcards in the find and replace
window but it does not accept *^p.

Thanks.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm.

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[Graham Mayor]

The link Jay & Doug have provided is probably more appropriate but to
understand the mechanics of the replace function, see
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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[Al]

I have a long file which was taken from the web in which I would like
to replace all paragraph marks that precede by a letter: a^p, b^p etc.

How do I do it in one go? I have tried wildcards in the find and
replace window but it does not accept *^p.

Thanks.

Don't use wildcards. In the Find box put ^$^p (any letter Paramark)