Power users of Microsoft Word will be familiar with the advanced Find options, commonly referred to as "caret codes" because they are composed of the caret symbol followed by a letter. For example, the caret code "^t" can be used to find a tab. AutoScript Desktop has a similar feature with much more power and usefulness than those codes.

The first step is to open a job in ASD, and then use the default hotkey [Ctrl]+[F] or click the [Find] button on the home tab to open the Find tool. Then, from the down-facing arrow next to the Find text box, click to check "Regular expression".

Now a whole new world is open to you. You can use the code \d to find any single digit or the code \d+ to find strings of digits. Following are regular expressions (regex) equivalent to the carat codes you'll find in MS Word.

REGEX	ITEM	CARET CODE
\n	paragraph mark	^p
\t	tab character	^t
.	any character	^?
\d	any digit	^#
[a-zA-Z]	any letter	^$
\^	caret character	^^
\u00B6	paragraph character (¶)	^v
\u2014	em dash (—)	^+
\u2013	en dash (–)	^=
\u000C	manual page break	^m
\u2011	nonbreaking hyphen	^~
\u00a0	nonbreaking space	^s
\u00ad	optional hyphen	^-
\s	white space (space, tab, newline)	^w
\	( add space after \ ) - space character	n/a