I want to change the spacing on citations in my document. They currently look like:

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> `something [1]`
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And I want them to look like:

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> `something[1]`
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There are dozens of citations in my document, so I would like to use the find feature in Word to make this less tedious.

From reading [this](https://superuser.com/questions/86397/wildcards-in-word) I tried to make a wildcard that would match, but it doesn't work.

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> `Find: ([A-z]@>) (\[[0-9]*\])`
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> `Replace: \1\2`
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The Find doesn't work. So, I do not know if the Replace will either. What am I missing? Thanks for your help!

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**Edit:** here is what I get when I enter ^w:

![^w is not a valid special character](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Va8cV.png)