Find and Replace with Regex in Microsoft Word 2013

Question

I am editing an e-book document with a lot of unnecessary markup. I have a number of sections in the text with code similar to this:

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Answer 1

There is a special tool for Microsoft Word called Multiple Find & Replace (see http://www.translatortools.net/products/transtoolsplus/word-multiplefindreplace) which allows to work around Word's wildcard limitations. This tool can use the standard regular expressions syntax to search and replace any text within a Word document. For example, to search for any HTML tags, you can just use <[^>]+> which will find opening, closing and standalone HTML tags. You can add any number of expressions to a list and then search the document for all of them, replace everything, see all matches for all the search expressions entered, replace only selected matches, and a few more things.

I created it for translators and editors, but it is great for any advanced search/replace operations in Word, and I am sure you will find it very useful.

Stanislav