Find/Change Inserting paragraph break

Hello
I am trying to insert a paragraph mark between two lines of text using find/change
The first line has a heading style and I want to insert an empty line (Paragraph) after it and before the next line (without changing any formatting)
I am able to use enter the correct parameters in find but can't figure out what parameter to use in 'Change to"
Forced line break doesn't produce what I want. Neither does standard carriage return (not sure what that is)
I have tried both Text and Grep dialogs without success. Yes I read the help files.
This will be simple for you guys but is stumping me.
Any ideas oh brilliant ones?
As usual Thanks much in advance

Err, a paragraph mark? You mean a paragraph break?
Anyhow, if you insist on Doing it Wrong, you can use ^p ("End of Paragraph") in the change field. So you might
change ^p to ^p^p to insert a blank paragraph between each paragraph. For instance. But again, it is the wrong answer.
Yes-a paragraph break.' Sorry for the imperfect terminology
The first line is a heading style which I was advised in this forum to make into a 'list style' due to TOC issues
The 'doing it wrong' paragraph is going to be used to anchor a graphic and then converted to a very small paragraph mark (nearly invisible) as advised in another article
I did use the
change ^p to ^p^p
but it creating another list style as the paragraph break. Its ok. I went ahead and did it anyway and then manually changed all of those entries into a regular paragraph 'break'
With 300 graphics I would like to automate this but.....
Thanks for your reply

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