Find and change

Task

Keyboard shortcut

Search forward

esc f i n

esc e shift+f

ctrl+shift+f

alt+ctrl+s

Search backward

esc f i p

alt+ctrl+f

alt+ctrl+r

Change current selection

esc r o

Change all occurrences of Find text in document

esc r g

Change and search again

esc r a

Change settings to As Is in Find Character Format and Change To Character Format dialogs

shift+F8

Change settings to match selected text in the Find Character Format and Change To Character Format dialogs

shift+F9

Display Set Find/Change Parameters dialog box

esc f i s

Find

Text string

Tab symbol

\t

Forced return

\r

End-of-paragraph symbol

\p

Start of paragraph

\P

Nonbreaking space

\ (space)

Thin space

\i, \st

Find

Text string

En space

\N, \sn

Em space

\M, \sm

Numeric space

\#, \s#

End-of-flow symbol

\f

` (grave)

\{

\ (backslash)

\\

Discretionary hyphen

\-

Nonbreaking hyphen

\+

Suppress hyphenation symbol

\_

Start of word

\<

End of word

\>

With Use Wildcards turned on …

Any number of characters

*

Spaces or punctuation

| (bar)

Any one character

?

The beginning of a line

^

The end of a line

$

Any one of the bracketed characters ab

[ab]

Any character except ab

[^ab]

Any character from a to f

[a-f]