Removal of everything between two characters in Ms Word
I need a pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters. An example would be:
<blah blah blah>Something I want <blah blah>really bad<blah blah>
becomes
Something I want really bad
How would I go about doing this? I have looked up the word search patterns and tried using them (to no avail). If Word won't do it, is there an online tool that could?
I need a search pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters.
Set "Find What" to
\<(*{1,})\>
Set "Replace with" to an empty string.
Check "Use wildcard"
Notes:
-
<
and>
are special characters that need to be escaped using\
-
*
means any character -
{1,}
means one or more times
Further reading
- Find and replace text by using regular expressions (Advanced)