MS Word Find and Replace not working

[allenglishboy]

When I try to find the Section breaks it finds all the section breaks. However when I try to do FIND and Replace. It does not replace any and i get the message "word has completed its search of the document and has made 0 replacements"


Any suggestions on how I can rectify this?

PS. I do not have "match case" or any of the other options at the bottom of the replace window selected.

[Charles Kenyon]

Are you replacing ^b with ^p?

[macropod]

What is is your Find/Replace expression? You should be able to use:
Find = ^b
Replace = whatever you want to replace them with

[allenglishboy]

Originally Posted by macropod

What is is your Find/Replace expression? You should be able to use:
Find = ^m
Replace = whatever you want to replace them with

I am using ^b for Find

and ^m for Replace

The problem is that When i click FIND it finds all the the section breaks

but when I click FIND AND REPLACE it does not replace any of the section breaks.

[macropod]

Works fine for me. Do you have any Find formatting options etc active?

[allenglishboy]

I have done this before and it worked perfectly but it isnt working now.

The word thing is

Find Works

but replace doesnt

[macropod]

OK, but that doesn't answer my question. Do any format references appear under the Find entry? Are any other Find/Replace options checked?

[allenglishboy]

No other find replace options are checked.

What are " format references"?

[macropod]

If, for example, you had previously done a Find for Bold text, the word 'Bold' would appear under the Find box.

[allenglishboy]

there are no references

[macropod]

OK, re-start Word then check if it works with Section breaks in this or another document?

If it doesn't work in either, you should probably run a repair via Programs & Features in the Windows Control Panel.

If it works in a new document but not the existing one, that suggests some form of document corruption. In that case, try inserting a paragraph break at the very end of the existing document. Then copy all of the content, except for that final paragraph break, and pasting it into a new document. The new document should be free of the corruption.