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[Alan O'Brien]

I cut and pasted a large old book from the internet into a Word 2002
document.
For some reason the site-owner included the works original page numbers
throughout the text, like so:
"...I would just like to {53}add that since I began using Usenet in October
1979 this is definitely the most ridiculous {54}thread I have been involved
in..."
Is there any way I can get rid of all of them quickly?
Alan
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[Phill. W]

.. . .

"...I would just like to {53}add that since I began using Usenet in
October 1979 this is definitely the most ridiculous {54}thread I have
been involved in..."
Is there any way I can get rid of all of them quickly?

Sounds like a job for a Wildcard replace:

Find: \{??\}
Replace: <blank>
Use Wildcard: Yes

This will do all the two-digit page numbers - you'll need to experiment
with the number of '?'s to get /all/ of them (I thought just trashing
/anything/ between curlies might be a bit too "wild"...

HTH,
Phill W.

 

[Alan O'Brien]

. . .

Sounds like a job for a Wildcard replace:

Find: \{??\}
Replace: <blank>
Use Wildcard: Yes

This will do all the two-digit page numbers - you'll need to experiment
with the number of '?'s to get /all/ of them (I thought just trashing
/anything/ between curlies might be a bit too "wild"...

Thank you , Phil.
I haven't yet tried it - I am about to do so - but I seem to remember
doing something similar using ^n and having to use {{^n}}- which didn't
work.
I will be giving it a go after my mum's birthday.
Alan