Perhaps you should look a little harder. A web search for:
Word wildcard replace ^13
quickly turned up these three articles.
First we have Miscrosoft's own
Find and replace text by using regular expressions (Advanced) article at:
https://support.office.com/en-US/Art...8-85b0ad1c427f
which says:
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Misusing the ^13 code in a replace operation can essentially convert your document into a file that you cannot format.
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Then there's the MVP article
Finding and replacing characters using wildcards, at:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm
which says:
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If you use ^13 in a replace string, invalid characters, that look like paragraph marks but aren't, will be inserted – so beware!
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Yet another article,
Find and Replace using wildcards, at:
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
says:
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^p DOES NOT WORK in wildcard search strings! It must however be used in replacement strings, but when searching, you must look for the substitute code ^13.
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This advice pre-dates even Word 2000 and is still current, as the MS article demonstrates.