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.

Are you replacing ^b with ^p?

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

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Paul Edstein
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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.

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

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

The word thing is

Find Works

but replace doesnt

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

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Paul Edstein
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No other find replace options are checked.

What are " format references"?

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

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Paul Edstein
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there are no references

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.

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Paul Edstein
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