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Replacing Text in Word & Publisher - Including Special Characters A variation on Finding text in Word is Replacing text. Most people will think about using this tool in their last proposal to change all of the occurrences of “ABC Moving” with “Acme Moving & Storage”. While that is a helpful use of Replace, I use it to clean up documents that I copy from the internet or that clients send me. They are often filled with manual line breaks, extra spaces and unneeded paragraph marks.  To use the Replace feature click the Replace option on the Home tab, Editing group. In the dialog box click the More button on the left side and then click the Special menu to view the options. If I wanted to replace all of the manual line breaks with a space I would find “Manual Line Break” in the list and click on it. Word inserts the code for that (^l) in the Find What box. Now click in the Replace with box and tap the spacebar once. You won’t see any...