Click the Format button, and select Font.Go to the Replace with field and type: \1\2\3.Type the following exactly (or copy it from here): (\).Put your cursor into the Find what field.Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.entire document, selected paragraphs, selected columns or rows of a table). Select the text you want to change (e.g.Meantime, here’s my solution, which works in all versions of Word: I explain what all the settings mean after these steps, if you’re interested. With some help from and a bit of trial and error, I figured it out. However, square brackets are special characters in wildcard searches, so they have to be treated differently.
This is an ideal job for using wildcards in Word’s find and replace. My husband wanted to select a long column of text and find any text that was inside square brackets and reformat it so that the text - and the square brackets - was 4 pt and blue (no, I don’t know why either…).
