title: Find and Replace with Regex in Microsoft Word 2013
body: <p>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:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;i&gt;Some text here&lt;/i&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to run a regex find and replace that will find any phrase between the two i-tags, remove the i-tags, and apply a style to the text.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what I'm using to search:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Find: (&lt;i&gt;)(*)(&lt;/i&gt;)
  Replace: \2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm also selecting Styles > i (for italic). This tells our conversion software to apply italics to the text. If I leave the i-tags, what ends up happening is ScribeNet's conversion process converts them to hex-values so that they show up as literal text in the e-book. Messy.</p>
  
  <p>When I run this search, I get no results. I have "use wildcards" checked. What am I missing? According to Microsoft's help website, * is used to represent any number or type of characters, and individual strings are supposed to be enclosed in parentheses.</p>