However, if you want to break the sentence in order to move the required part of the sentence to the next line, then luckily, the manual line break can also assist you here. Just place the cursor where you want to break the content from, and press Shift+Enter, Word will end the current line, and continue the text from the next line. Mar 31, 2019 What is a manual line break, and how do I insert one? Presumably it is akin to bumping the next word to the next line, as opposed to starting a new paragraph? Under Find and Replace I can search for one of these, but I cannot find any means of inserting one!
Word allows you to search not just for text, but also for special characters that normally do not print. Two of the most common characters you will find yourself searching for are paragraph marks and line breaks (sometimes called newline characters and inserted by pressing shift+enter). To search for these characters, follow these steps in Word 2007:. Press Ctrl+F. Word displays the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
In the Find What box, enter the text for which you want to search. To search for a paragraph mark, enter ^p; to search for a line break, enter ^l. It is important to use a lowercase p or l. Set other searching parameters, as desired.
Click on Find Next. If you are using Word 2010 or a later version then the interface used for searching is different than in earlier versions of Word:.
Press Ctrl+F. Word displays the Navigation task pane at the left side of the screen. In the box at the top of the Navigation pane, enter the text for which you want to search. To search for a paragraph mark, enter ^p; to search for a line break, enter ^l. (It is important to use a lowercase p or l.) If there are not too many matches, Word displays them in the Navigation pane.
Use the Next and Previous arrows, just to the right of the pane tabs, to navigate through what Word found. You can also click on More in the Find and Replace dialog box and then click Special. This will allow you to search for many non-printing characters. These will highlight even if they're not displayed by turning on the Show/Hide Paragraph button on the Home Tab. It's usually better to have the non-printing characters displayed but the Find and Find/Replace dialog box will highlight then either way. A great use for this is a document with numerous returns (Paragraph) marks in between pages and/or what we sometimes find at the end of a document.
Simply use the method noted above or enter double, or triple paragraph marks (^p^p, ^p^p^p) for the find and replace them with one Paragraph mark (^p).