Despite what you so nicely imply, I have already researched this abundantly. And I haven’t found anything to substantiate your assertion regarding this topic. On the contrary, at Special characters you can use with Find and Replace in Word I found this:

The following characters can be used in both the Find what and Replace with boxes:
^13 or ^p Carriage return/paragraph mark

This page was written to support Office 2003. Have things changed since? Where does it say so?
Please be a little bit more helpful!