Although Jay's suggestion works perfectly, for the sake of completeness, the
centre brackets are actually superfluous
(\[)*(\])
replace with
\1text\2
will work just as well
And if the square brackets are no longer required neither are the round
brackets so in those circumstances, replace the string
\[*\]
with
text

An updated version of the web page Jay has linked is available at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Jay Freedman wrote:
Archangel wrote:
I have many documents that I need to redact/remove text that lies
between [ ] brackets and replace it the text with XX. Is there a way
to do this?

EX:
blah blah blah blah blah [blah blah blah] blah blah blah.

would be replaced with -

blah blah blah blah blah [XX] blah blah blah.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Mike

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.

The Find expression should be
(\[)(*)(\])

The Replace expression should be
\1XX\3

Don't forget to click More and check the "Use wildcards" box. Then
click Replace All.