thanks again macropod!

Ok, so I think this is hopefully the last problem I have. I am now able to find the characters that look like ^_^ but now I need to take them out and replace them but I need to keep the emoticons that look like (^_^). This is similar to my first problem but I tried doing:

Find: ([!(])^^_^
Replace: happy

However, when I do this it tells me "^ is not a valid special character for the Find What Box or is not supported when the Use Wildcards checkbox is selected"

Is there anyway to keep (^_^) while taking out ^_^? Thanks so much for your help and any other help I can get is greatly appreciated.