Find and Replace

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skeetnyc

I have a document that's been tagged. I need to delete all these tags. Each tag begins with the < character and ends with the > character. How do I set up Find and Replace to search for all instances that start and end with <>? Thanks

Scott
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]

skeetnyc said:
I have a document that's been tagged. I need to delete all these tags.
Each tag begins with the < character and ends with the > character. How
do I set up Find and Replace to search for all instances that start and
end with <>? Thanks.Scott

You can use Wildcars in Word. You need to use the appropriate symbols
though. The help in Word can give you the (short) list of supported
wildcars.
You need to use "Search" and display the advanced search pane. In there
select "use wildcar".
The string you are looking for is "\<*\>"
You need the backslashes before < and > because these two characters are
wildcars themselves (I know, escaping wildcars is not well documented in
the help).


Corentin
 

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