| Code | Notes |
| ^1 | In-line picture |
| ^2 | Auto referenced footnotes |
| ^5 | Annotation mark |
| ^9 | Tab |
| ^11 | New line |
| ^12 | Page or Section break |
| ^13 | Paragraph break / 'carriage' return |
| ^14 | Column break |
| ^19 | Opening field brace (when field braces are visible) |
| ^21 | Closing field brace (when field braces are visible) |
| ? | Question mark |
| ^? | Any single character (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^- | Optional hyphen |
| ^~ | Non-breaking hyphen |
| ^^ | Caret character |
| ^# | Any digit |
| ^$ | Any letter |
| ^& | Contents of 'Find What' box (Search/Replace Dialog only) |
| ^+ | Em dash (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^= | En dash (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^u8195 | Em Space Unicode character value search (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^u8194 | En Space Unicode character value search (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^a | Comment (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) (Word 97-2000 only) |
| ^b | Section break (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^c | Replace with Clipboard contents (Search/Replace Dialog only) |
| ^d | Field |
| ^e | Endnote Mark (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^f | Footnote Mark (not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog) |
| ^g | Graphic (In Line Graphics Only). In Word 2007 a forward slash / also appears to find in-line graphics. This appears to be
an unintentional bug. |
| ^l | New line -  |
| ^m | Manual Page Break |
| ^n | Column break |
| ^t | Tab -  |
| ^p | Paragraph Mark -  |
| ^s | Non-breaking space - ° |
| ^w | White space (space, non-breaking space, tab); not valid in the Search/Replace Dialog |
| ^nnn | Where "n" is an ASCII character number Note: ASCII codes below 128 were standardized a long time ago, before the introduction of Windows operating systems. The upper codes were used for OS-specific, localized, or vendor-specific stuff. When DOS code pages were replaced by Windows code pages, a leading zero was used to indicated the difference. Thus ^32 and ^032 will both represent a space character, but ^147 will represent ô and ^0147 will represent |
| ^0nnn | See above (Produces ASCII on Macintosh). |
| ^unnnn | Unicode character search where "n" is a decimal number corresponding to the Unicode character value. Note: Instructions on how to identify the required decimal number are included at the end of this page. |
| Note: | To search for a specific field, such as an XE (Index Entry) field, use the following syntax: ^19 field name |