See the Unicode Math Chart for additional codes for math symbols. Note that they only work in Microsoft Office and that you should use the non-Hex code. For instance an entry ∛ for the cube root symbol (∛) would correspond to ALT+8731 in Word.
A 'character set' is a mapping of characters to their identifying code values. The character set most commonly used in computers today is Unicode, a global standard for character encoding. Internally, Windows applications use the UTF-16 implementation of Unicode. In UTF-16, most characters are identified by two-byte codes. The less commonly used supplementary characters are each represented by a surrogate pair, which is a pair of two-byte codes. For more information, see Surrogates and Supplementary Characters.
Some Windows applications must work with the older character sets that are native to Windows Me/98/95. Windows code pages allow your application to work with these character sets. These character sets can be divided into:
- Single-byte character sets (SBCS). In an SBCS, each character is identified by a value one byte wide.
- Multibyte character sets, in particular the double-byte character sets (DBCS). Multibyte character sets provide a means to represent the large number of characters in many Asian languages.
For more information, see the following topics:
- Important: Some of the Microsoft Office programs, such as PowerPoint and InfoPath, cannot convert.
- Any single character ^# Any digit ^$ Any letter ^u8195. Em space Unicode character value search ^u8194. En space Unicode character value search ^b. Section break ^w. White space (space, nonbreaking space, tab) ^unnnn. Word 2000 Unicode character search, where 'n' is a decimal number corresponding to the Unicode character value.
- Feb 03, 2020 Microsoft Word, like all text-based programs, uses a numeric character code called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) for each alphabetic, numeric, and special character on.
Unicode Character Code Lookup
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Extracted from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214204
NOTE: The caret character (^) in the following tables must be typed. The caret character is created by pressing SHIFT+6 on most keyboards. (Do not confuse this character with the CTRL key.)
'Find what' Box Only
The following characters can only be used in the Find what box.
Character | String |
^1 or ^g | Picture (inline pictures only) |
^2, ^f (footnote), or ^e (endnote) | Auto-referenced footnotes or endnotes |
^5 or ^a | Annotation/comment mark |
^19 or ^d | Opening field brace (Use only when you are viewing field codes.) (Selects whole field, not just opening brace.) |
^21 or ^d | Closing field brace (Use only when you are viewing field codes.) (Selects whole field, not just closing brace.) |
^? | Any single character |
^# | Any digit |
^$ | Any letter |
^u8195 | Em space Unicode character value search |
^u8194 | En space Unicode character value search |
^b | Section break |
^w | White space (space, nonbreaking space, tab) |
^unnnn | Word 2000 Unicode character search, where 'n' is a decimal number corresponding to the Unicode character value |

Unicode Character Lookup
'Replace with' Box Only
The following characters can only be used in the Replace with box.
Character | String |
^& | Contents of the 'Find what' box |
^c | Replace with the Clipboard contents |
Both 'Find what' and 'Replace with' Boxes
The following characters can be used in both the Find what and Replace with boxes.
Character | String |
^9 or ^t | Tab |
^11 or ^l | New line |
^12 | Page or section break (Replaces a section break with a page break) |
^13 or ^p | Carriage return/paragraph mark |
^14 or ^n | Column break |
? | Question mark |
^- | Optional hyphen |
^~ | Nonbreaking hyphen |
^^ | Caret character |
^+ | Em dash |
^= | En dash |
^m | Manual page break |
^s | Nonbreaking space |
^nnn | Where 'n' is an ASCII character number |
^0nnn | Where 'n' is an ANSI character number |
Example: Replacing paragraph breaks in MS Word
PROBLEM: How do I replace paragraph breaks in a text file or MS Word document?
SOLUTION: Using the Find and Replace dialog, use the escape character sequence ^p (shift-6 p) to search for or insert paragraph breaks.


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