Special characters for find and replace

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017  This topic last edited on: 17/Mar/2016, at 16:50

As it is not possible to enter directly in the Find and replace dialog box the special characters listed below, insert them temporarily in text, select them, cut them to clipboard, and then paste them in the find or replace field.

To find/replace

Enter

How to get in in the text?

Paragraph mark

Press 8, and then copy and paste it from text.

Line break

¬

Press SHIFT+8, and then copy and paste it from text.

Start of tabulation

|

On the Type menu, point to Insert GNML and HTML, and then select Insert start tabulation.

Column

»

On the Type menu, point to Insert GNML and HTML, and then select Insert next column.

Last row

\

Press CTRL+Tab in text, and then copy and paste it from text.

Bell

@

Press F10 in text, and then copy and paste it from text.

See also

Replace/delete special characters, tags and text by scripting