Find & Replace [word] with (word)

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How can I find and replace the brackets only such as, [anywords] with
(anywords)
I tried [*] with (*) and that didn't work.

 

[Klaus Linke]

"Christina"wrote:

How can I find and replace the brackets only such as,
[anywords] with (anywords)
I tried [*] with (*) and that didn't work.

Hi Christina,

Let's first try to match "[anywords]".
Your expression is close, you only have to "escape" the [square brackets]
with \backslashes, since they have a special use in wildcard searches:

Find what: \[*\]

You want to get rid of the square brackets. In wildcard matches, you can
reuse stuff from "Find what" in "Replace with" if you put it in
(parentheses).
Then you can use \1 in "Replace with" for the matched text in the first
expression in (parentheses), \2 for the second, and so on.

Find what: \[(*)\]
Replace with: (\1)

That should do the trick.
Klaus

 

[Graham Mayor]

Klaus is being rather modest as he did not mention the collaborative work we
did on wildcard searches which would help with further examples -
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm I have since re-written
to try and make it even easier to understand. The latest version is at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm.

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