Hi all

I have a large amount of text which contains markdown for use in another application. For example, *S.austinii* is rendered in HTML in italics.

I would like to use Find and Replace or similar in Word to convert *S.austinii* to S.austinii. There are hundreds of such entries, each of different length so I'll need to specify that the first asterisk marks the start and the second one the end of the italicised text but use a wild card for the text in between.

Can I do this?

Many thanks for any help

Dave