I thought this would be easy (I am only an occasional Word user) and perhaps I am missing the obvious. I have inherited a very long document with hundreds of lines containing the string: [xxxx]. The x is a digit 0-9 and the brackets are square. With the [ ] being special characters maybe that is my problem? I'm just unable to work out how to search the document for all instances of [xxxx] and just remove them?

How do I remove all the instances of [xxxx] in the document?



Any help would be much appreciated less I spend several hours removing all the [xxxx] manually!!!!

Search for
\[*\]
with the wildcard option set and replace with nothing.
This will leave (in many cases) two spaces. You can either add a space before the search string or replace two spaces with one subsequently.
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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