can find and replace instances of the "enter" key?

[snunicycler]

this is my first post and I hope i'm posting in the correct spot.


Hi Everyone!

ok here's my problem: My Final exam is a comprehensive exam from all of the questions for our previous tests. The professors sent us all of these questions (in a word doc) as a study guide. i want to load them on my ipad as flash cards but the app i found needs a very specifically formatted spreadsheet (I'll get to that later). The questions are currently formatted this way:

Question 1 is a question about something
Answer a
Answer b
Answer c
Answer d


But I need to get rid of all the instances of the “enter” key and replace it with the “tab” key so that it formats it like this:

Question 1 is a question about something Answer a Answer b Answer c Answer d

I have done about 20 of them manually and it is taking forever and driving me insane, especially since I still have about 380 to go…. I tried using the “find and replace” option but even with the “special” button I have not found anything that will find instances of the “enter” key. Any ideas? I really do not want to spend the next several hours doing this manually.
Thanks!

(PS: It needs to be formatted that way so when i paste it into the spreadsheet, each question with the corresponding answers are on the same row, right now each answer is on a different row so the app has no idea what is going on).

[gmaxey]

Find: ^13
Replace with: ^t

[d4okeefe]

Try ^p in the find box, and ^t in replace. I believe this should solve your issue.

[fumei]

Are we sure the OP wants ALL hard returns changed to tabs? That seems unlikely.

[gmaxey]

Perhaps when the OP relealizes that what he got was not what he wanted then he will post back making sure we know what he wants ;-)

[Charles Kenyon]

Ctrl-H gives you the Replace dialog.

Assuming that between questions there are two instances of the Enter key, you would first replace ^p^p with [paragraph],
then replace ^p with ^t,
then replace [paragraph] with ^p^p

^p is find and replace searching for a paragraph mark
^t is find and replace searching for a tab mark

Basic Formatting in Microsoft Word

[macropod]

If the OP selects each question and its answers, then runs the Find/Replace only against that range, I believe the desired result will be obtained. Of course, if we had more information about the document's layout (eg double-paragraph breaks between questions) a better solution would surely emerge.

[macropod]

Duplicate threads merged.

snunicycler: Please don't create duplicate threads. It simply wastes peoples' time retracing issues addressed elsewhere.