Hello again. Clearly, I did fail to check the wildcards box. However, my intention, evidently poorly stated at the beginning, for which I apologize, is not met your procedure, which has nothing in the replace field. So much for my ability to communicate. Let me try again.
My intention, is to keep but change the words within the brackets from roman to italics, and to remove the brackets, which are just an artifact of an antiquated word processor indicating that the words should be emphasized.
Is there an expression for the replace field that will do this, or is a macro needed?

Thank you, as always.