Hi Purvi,

It's a problem in all versions. You can't replace a paragraph immediately
preceeding a table with "Find/Replace".
To do so, Word would have to temporarily remove the paragraph mark. And
since a table needs a preceeding paragraph mark, Word can't do it.

But the good news is that you don't really need to replace
(delete/re-insert) the paragraph mark -- You just want to change it's
formatting.

Instead of using ^p or ^& in "Replace with", just leave it empty. That way,
you just apply the formatting, and Word doesn't need to temporarily remove
the ¶ mark.

Regards,
Klaus



"Purvi" wrote:
Hi,

I'm using Word 2000, but I'm facing the same problem in
Office XP also. I have installed latest updates also for
Office 2000 but not for Office XP. Could that be the
reason?

Basically I need to replace all paragraph marks and make
it font size 2 so that they are hardly visible. I've tried
this manually and programmatically also.

When I create a table after a paragraph, the paragraph
mark immediately before the table remains whatever font
size it was earlier even after using replace all function.
But it does work if you go one by one.

I tried changing all the paragraph marks to red using
replace all function but it still skips.

Does OS make a difference? I'm using Windows 2000.

Thanks,
Purvi

-----Original Message-----
Bonjour,

Dans son message, Purvi Sheth écrivait :
In this message, Purvi Sheth wrote:

|| Hi All,
||
|| I've been trying to replace all paragraph marks in a
|| document with a specific formatting using the Find-
Replace
|| tool. The problem is that Word skips any paragraph mark
|| before a table when using Replace All. However, if I
find

What Word version?

It works fine here with Word XP. I did a Find ¶ and
replace all by Red
colour. All ¶ in the document turned red, even those
inside the tables...

|| or replace each paragraph mark one by one, then the
|| paragraph marks before the table are identified. I
cannot
|| loop through each paragraph mark one by one as it is
time-
|| consuming. Even looping through tables and then
fomatting
|| the previous paragraph mark is time-consuming. I'm
looking
|| for a direct find-replace method that would do this
work
|| for me. Is there any way this can be done?
||
|| I'm not sure if this is the right group to post this
|| issue. If this is not, I would appreciate if you could
|| point me to the right group.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Purvi

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Salut!
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