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Problem with removing { XE } code
I've been editing an index using Search and Replace. Somehow the word I was working on, let's say 'cat' now appears as cat{ XE } with nothing else between the brackets. 'cat' now appears in the inde...
You have to display hidden text to see all the XE fields in Word. cat^d will only work in the "Find what" box in the Find & Replace dialog box, if the XE field is immediately preceded by the word cat. Maybe what you have is really the word cat, then a space, and then the XE field, in which case you should use: cat ^d instead.
Display nonprinting marks, for example by clicking the ¶ icon on the Home tab, to find out more what you are dealing with in the document. See the screen shot below for a simple example.