Using wildcards for whole phrases

[Guest]

I want to delete all text between a set of phrases that start with </a> and
end with </li>. The text in between the brackets is all different. So I want
an expression like Replace </a>xxxyyydddaaa</li> where the words represented
by xxx, yyy, ddd, and aaa are different words of varying lengths. Or an
expression that says, "delete everything between these two symbols or
letters."

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

In Find and Replace, click More if necessary, and enable Use wildcards.

Find what:\</a\>*\</li\>

Replace withleave empty)

This assumes that you want to delete the </a> and </li> dilimiters as well.
If you want to leave those, then set Replace with to:

</a></li>

Note: because < and > are special characters in the Find what: field when
Use wildcards is enabled, you have to precede them with the \ character to
force Word not to interpret them as the beginning/end of a word.

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm which explains what
Herb has suggested.

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