How do you say "not" in Ms Word find and replace ?

[jameshanley39]

I would like to say something like

not <a href*</a>

I will then replace them with nothing. Thus leaving the links.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm


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[jameshanley39]

See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

looks like regex.

Would take hours daily to potentially figure out. But somebody that
already knows regex would know straight away. A one line thing

If anybody does know off hand, then please let me know.

Now I see it is regex, I see this may be the wrong newsgroup.

essentially, a regex to find all things not of the form
<a href=http* </a>