Click the link below for mini tutorials on how to do just about anything in Excel or Word. Includes many software application tutorials. The tutorials are broken down into 10-15 minute lessons. So if you are looking for a "how-to" on a particular thing - like how to custom sort a list in Excel - you can choose the sort tutorial.
Microsoft Tutorials at GCFGlobal
Using Find/Replace in Word documents (video from webinar demonstration)
See document below on using Find/Replace to insert graphic and special characters (like adding paragraph markers)