Thank you Roy, and Kerry, My answer, given I wanted to put a few characters immediately before every instance of a paragraph mark and retain the paragraph mark was to search for $, and then replace with "characters \n".
Agreed with Kerry's comments that some of the help descriptions are somewhat unclear, it may well be that Ian's macros do indeed help and I will put that on my list of things to do. Kerry, the ctrl+F alt+O line from Roy's reply is the keyboard shortcuts to perform the task without needing to touch the mouse. In general (any application) the alt key plus the underlined character in a dialog box provides this functionality. Kerry Mayes wrote: > In the help on regular expressions it carefully ignores the "$" for > paragraph mark but does have: > "^$" for empty paragraphs and > "\n" for new line characters (shift enter) > > The description of \n is a bit confusing too: > "Represents a line break that was inserted with the Shift+Enter key > combination. To change a line break into a paragraph break, enter \n > in the Search for and Replace with boxes, and then perform a search > and replace." > > I think that also means that if you want to replace with a paragraph > mark you would use "\n". > > On 05/03/07, Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Edit -> Find & Replace >> More Options >> Regular expressions >> Search for $ >> Replace with <whatever you're replacing the paragraph markers with> >> > > But this is way over my head! >> or >> >> ctrl-F alt-O alt-X alt-S $ alt-P replacement-text >> > >
