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Find and replace special right-to-left characters

The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only available if support for right-to-left languages is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

1. On the Edit menu, click Find or Replace.
2. Click More to expand the dialog box.
3. Select one or more of the right-to-left-specific check boxes.

   You can select check boxes to search for text with matching kashidas (Arabic only), alef hamzas (Arabic only), diacritics, and control characters. Otherwise, Microsoft Word ignores these characters when searching.

4. To search for right-to-left-specific control characters, click Special, and then click one of the following:

   • RTL Mark to search for

   • LTR Mark to search for

   • Zero Width Joiner to search for (Arabic only)

   • Zero Width No-Joiner to search for (Arabic only)