Find and Replace with Regex in Microsoft Word 2013

Question

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:

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Answer 1

Search for \(*{1,})\ and replace with \1. Don't forget to check Use wildcard.

There is a reference table for Word's "regular expressions" here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/word-help/find-and-replace-text-by-using-regular-expressions-advanced-HA102350661.aspx

• < and > are special characters that need to be escaped
• * means any character
• {1,} means one or more times