In Word 2016 I have a list of a 11.000 historical military people that I want to turn into a table to be used in a sortable Excel later. It's OCR-d from a pdf of an old book, around 10% non trusted result)

They all look like this (One man per paragraph):



de CHARETTE de LA CONTRIE, Athanase, né Ã* Nantes (Loire-Inférieure), 18 septembre 1832. — Lieutenant-colonel, commandant la Légion des Volontaires de lÂ’Ouest, 7 octobre 1870 ; Général de brigade, 14 janvier 1871. Combat de Brou ; bataille de Loigny. Blessé Ã* Loigny. — Chevalier de la Légion dÂ’honneur, 8 décembre 1870 ; Officier de la Légion d'honneur, 20 juillet 1871.



I have already placed tabs before and after "né Ã*" with a simple S&R.

Now I need a tab AFTER the first date ( right after the first right bracket, always 19th century).


So in the search box I typed ), ^# <(*)> 18^#^#.
and in the Replacebox : ^t^&^T
(Intending a second run with the two-digit days, and to do a correction by switching the first tab and the bracket later)

But it does not work : nothing is found.
It says (Transl. from Dutch):
^# is not a valid part of a searchstring or it's not supported when using wildcards is enabled
I have tried a lot of variants, but no dice

What am I doing wrong?

Leo