VBA Format text before colon bold not including square bracket/bracket

[Shelley Lou]

I have some code that formats text before a colon bold for definitions. I'm currently working on a document where there are square brackets and/or opening brackets at the beginning of the paragraph before the colon but the code isn't making the text bold. I did try adding ([\(\[\]) but this didn't work. Any ideas?




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Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
  With oRng.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindStop
    .Format = True
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    'Find text before first tab or colon and format bold
    .text = "([a-zA-Z0-9][!^13]@)([^t:])"
    While .Execute
       If oRng.Characters(1).Start = oRng.Paragraphs(1).Range.Characters(1).Start Then
         oRng.Select
         oRng.Font.Bold = True
         If Not oRng.Characters.Last.Next = vbTab Then
           oRng.text = Replace(oRng.text, ":", vbTab)
         Else
           oRng.Characters.Last.Delete
         End If
       End If
    Wend
  End With