Paragraph endings and line breaks

You may occasionally run into troubles when you search/replace for line and paragraph endings in PowerPoint text.

• Paragraphs and line breaks in titles are different from other text.
• PowerPoint 2007 and later use different characters for paragraph endings compared to previous versions.
• All versions use an unusual character to represent line breaks.

First, some terminology

Paragraph endings are what PowerPoint inserts into text when you press the Enter key.
In bulleted text, this ends one bullet point and begins another.

Line breaks are what PowerPoint inserts into text when you press Shift + Enter.
In bulleted text, this forces subsequent text to appear on a new line but doesn't begin a new bullet point.

In the following table we give both the hexadecimal and ascii equivalents of the characters PowerPoint inserts in each situation.

• 0D or 13 is a Carriage Return, vbCr or Chr$(13)
• 0A or 10 is a Linefeed, vbLf or Chr$(10)
• 0D 0A or 13 10 is a Carriage Return/Linefeed (CRLF) pair, vbCRLF or Chr$(13) & Chr$(10)
• 0B or 11 is a non-printable character, Chr$(11)

Table of paragraph/line break characters used by PowerPoint

Text	Character	97 - 2003	2007 and later
Title	Line break	0B / 11	0B / 11
Title	Paragraph break	0B / 11	0B / 11
Other text	Line break	0B / 11	0B / 11
Other text	Paragraph break	0D 0A / 13 10	0D / 13

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