I recently upgraded to Office 2007, a decision which I am regretting more and more with each day. Things that worked perfectly in 2003 don't work at all in this "improved" version. Here's my specific problem:
I downloaded some page source to get at the underlying data. It was easy enough to use find/replace to strip out all the HTML (e.g. Find "<tr>" replace with ""); that worked fine. The problem is that the source included many extra paragraph breaks. I confirmed this by selecting "Show/Hide formatting", and saw that backwards "P" symbol.
Naively, I thought this would be "No problem". I go to Find, pick "Special", and choose the "Paragraph character", which shows up in the Find box as "^v". But when I actually PICK find, I get the message that "Word has finished searching the document. The search item was not found". Did a little reading here, made sure that I was matching the same font, etc., tried again - no help.
Now, there were a lot of extra spaces in the document as well, and when I used the Copy function to actually copy the spaces (as opposed to using ^s), and paste those in the Find box, that worked perfectly. But, I can't select the Paragraph character.
Any ideas on what to do?
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