I would use a "Brute force" method (ie. no finesse at all !), and open it in
Excel (should have the data in one column), use DataText to Columns, then
delete the columns I don't want, save as a text file, reopen in word - voila
!

Rob Lepper

"Joe McGuire" wrote in message
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I have a list of 300+ medical/scientific article citations in Word 2003.
Each article citation is preceded by two paragraph signs, a 3-digit number
from 295 to 668 (in order), a period and a tab. I would like to remove
these numbers, the period and the tabs, but not any other numbers that may
be in the text--they are part of the citation. Getting rid of the
paragraph marks, periods and tabs is simple stuff. But I can't figure out
how to get rid of the numbers! I tried wildcards, and entering ^13 for the
paragraph and ^# for digits (as suggested in Mr. Mayor's excellent paper)
but I get an error message telling me that ^ is not valid for Find What.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to do it right?