Hi, I am hoping someone can help.

I have a very long document with hundreds of footnotes. The footnote numbers are in round brackets (eg "(1)"). I need to remove the brackets but leave the footnote mark numbers in place.

Word will let me find a footnote mark (^f) but not use it in the replace box so I cannot find (^f) and replace with ^f. I cannot figure out how to do this using find and replace without doing a global find and replace for every bracket in the document (thereby also deleting the brackets I need to keep) or by doing it one-by-one which - will take forever.

Is it possible to do this quickly with either a global find and replace or a macro?

Many thanks!