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I am trying to find and replace items in a letter but the symbols around the
item, (in this case the date)are not being replaced. What am I missing?
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If by symbols you mean the field delimiters { }, prefix the Find string with
^d

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I am trying to find and replace items in a letter but the symbols around
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