atw: SEC: UNCLASS RE: Word's find & replace dialog wildcards

That was very interesting, Steve. 

I've played around with similar ideas, but haven't grappled with all the
subtleties that you mention. I have to admit too that for a long time I
didn't know about (or think of) using ^013 in place of ^p. In a number
of macros I first replaced every ^p by some bizarre character string
such as $#$ (with wildcards off), then did a wildcard replace using $#$
in place of ^p, and finally changed every $#$ back to ^p again. When I
read about using ^013 I really kicked myself!

I can't understand why you need to introduce ^040 or ^058 in your other
example, though. Why can't you just use .Find.Text = "(:" and
.Find.Replacement.Text = "("?

Does this run into the same problems as you get with using ^040?

Howard

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     Howard L. Silcock
      Technical Writer
Project Office - Infrastructure
    Department of Defence
       (02) 626 58828  
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