Replace newline character with another in Word 2007

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Published on 2010-03-27T13:33:56Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 15:03 UTC
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Using Microsoft Word 2007, is it possible to replace the newline character (\n) with some other character?

What about vice versa? (That is replace a character with the newline character).

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