Word Macro to change Bracketed Text

Hi,

I need to create a word macro for a large document that would:

Turn text inside [brackets ] into white text, including text that is bracketed in the footnotes and the Table of Contents and keep brackets visible

Is this difficult?

Any help is appreciated as I have little experience with Word Macros.

Thanks!

Russell

more than likely, yes this is difficult, primarily because you have to search for the brackets from scratch. I seriously doubt you can do it any other way. although you can record a macro and search manually through the interface for the brackets and then see what code word produces for you. if you do that though, you should search for the brackets more than once. as in, push the ""search"" button more than once. that way, word can show you if there is a difference between the statement used the first you press the button vs. the subsequent times you press it. for instance, in excel, that similar process, when written in the VBA language, would use the following statements in order:

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Thanks! UI ddint think of trying find/replace but that could work. Thanks for the replies.