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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.)

In Print Layout View, there should be a thin gray line between pages. Hover your mouse over it until you see an icon that shows two arrows facing each other. Once you see that icon, double-click. The white space between the pages should reappear. This is a toggle, you can repeat the process to hide the white space again. The zero width non-joiner (which you linked) isn't a space character. It doesn't take up any space, and isn't treated as a word separator. The only purpose it has is preventing adjacent characters from being joined into a ligature, which is sometimes useful in non-Latin scripts. – duskwuff -inactive-Aug 11 '18 at 21:24.

'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

'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.

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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.

Word does not include a feature to automatically create 'thin spaces.' Some people require a space that is narrower (thinner) than the regular space, to place just a small amount of space between items on a line.

The workaround is to use a regular space, and then format that space (and only that space) to a point size smaller than what is used for the surrounding text. This requires some trial and error to get the appearance just as you like it. The drawback to this approach is that if you use justified text, Word automatically adjusts the width of the spaces on a line to fit the overall goal of justifying both margins. This, of course, defeats your purpose.

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You can also use non-breaking spaces, and then format them to a smaller point size. Non-breaking spaces are not 'resized' by Word when justifying text.

A final option is to adjust the character spacing before and after the item that you want to include additional space. This does not add a real 'thin space,' but instead instructs Word to 'space out' the items. This is done by following these steps:

1. Select the item (such as an em dash) together with the space before and after it.
2. Press Ctrl+D. Word displays the Font dialog box.
3. Make sure Character Spacing tab is selected. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Character Spacing tab of the Font dialog box.

4. In the Spacing drop-down list, select Condensed or Expanded, depending on your needs.
5. Using the By setting to the right of the Spacing drop-down list, indicate how much you want spacing condensed or expanded.
6. Click on OK to close the dialog box.

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Again, this approach may take a bit of trial and error on your part to get the desired effect.