[Kasey]

In my doc I have text with square brackets around it that I need to delete.
EG: [Q1]. To delete this in the past I would do a find and replace using the
wild card function \[*] . Now this is not working. It says it cant find
any. I have even tried making the change on a doc that it worked on before.
What has changed and how do I adapted?

[Jay Freedman]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:10:03 -0700, Kasey
wrote:

In my doc I have text with square brackets around it that I need to delete.
EG: [Q1]. To delete this in the past I would do a find and replace using the
wild card function \[*] . Now this is not working. It says it can’t find
any. I have even tried making the change on a doc that it worked on before.
What has changed and how do I adapted?

When you're using wildcards, square brackets in the Find expression
have a special meaning. To find actual brackets in the text, both
brackets in the expression have to be preceded by backslashes. The
expression should be

\[*\]

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Two things:

1. Enable Use wildcards.

2. Use \ before each of the [] characters: \[*\]

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Kasey" wrote in message
...
In my doc I have text with square brackets around it that I need to
delete.
EG: [Q1]. To delete this in the past I would do a find and replace using
the
wild card function \[*] . Now this is not working. It says it cant find
any. I have even tried making the change on a doc that it worked on
before.
What has changed and how do I adapted?

[Kasey]

Jay - Thank you so much. Sometimes it's the simplest things!

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:10:03 -0700, Kasey
wrote:

In my doc I have text with square brackets around it that I need to delete.
EG: [Q1]. To delete this in the past I would do a find and replace using the
wild card function \[*] . Now this is not working. It says it cant find
any. I have even tried making the change on a doc that it worked on before.
What has changed and how do I adapted?

When you're using wildcards, square brackets in the Find expression
have a special meaning. To find actual brackets in the text, both
brackets in the expression have to be preceded by backslashes. The
expression should be

\[*\]

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Kasey]

Thank you as well Herb! All is working well!

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Two things:

1. Enable Use wildcards.

2. Use \ before each of the [] characters: \[*\]

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Kasey" wrote in message
...
In my doc I have text with square brackets around it that I need to
delete.
EG: [Q1]. To delete this in the past I would do a find and replace using
the
wild card function \[*] . Now this is not working. It says it cant find
any. I have even tried making the change on a doc that it worked on
before.
What has changed and how do I adapted?