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Old 01-19-2009, 04:29 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
MSWord uses nonstandard terms for regular expressions.

This one will work: (\[*\])

But I recommend that you use this one: (\[?\]) add more '?' as needed to catch all the desired terms
If, as stated, the footnote reference is numeric, then:

\[[0-9]*\]

is safer in that it will only catch numeric references.
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