I'm stuck. I am using Word97 (where apparently RegEx is NOT RegEx as
we used to know them...).

What I want to achieve:

Find a single asterisk (*) in the document and have it formatted and
aligned like that:

texttexttexttexttext
texttexttexttexttext

         *

texttexttexttexttext
texttexttexttexttext

What I already got (or not, who knows) is the first part: Find the
asterisk and insert the empty lines (or, if there are more lines
before or after, delete them).

  With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Text = "([!^13])^13{1;}\*^13{1;}([!^13])"
    .Replacement.Text = "\1^13^13*^13^13\2"
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With

Showing as here:

texttexttexttexttext
texttexttexttexttext

*

texttexttexttexttext
texttexttexttexttext

But I can't get the second part (the center alignment) working.
I have found out that it's probably the way I replace the ^13.

  Call ClearFindAndReplaceParameters

  With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter
    .Text = "^13\*^13{2}"
    .Replacement.Text = "^13*^13^13"
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With

This not only aligns the wanted ^13*^13^13, but the preceding and the
following lines as well. Hmpf.

I've read on the MVPS site that I must not use the ^13 in the replace
string, but instead ^p. But this gets me the error 5624. I CAN'T use
^p. - Or can I?

As said, I'm using Word97.
And as said, I'm stuck. :-]

See ya
Peter