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 index hundreds of times (pages of entries). I try to remove the { XE } with search and replace but it does not work. How can I search for this string in Search and Replace to that I can knock it out in one batch without all the { XE } with other content being knocked out too (e.g. dog{ XE “dog” }?

​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 index hundreds of times (pages of entries). I try to remove the { XE } with search and replace but it does not work. How can I search for this string in Search and Replace to that I can knock it out in one batch without all the { XE } with other content being knocked out too (e.g. dog{ XE “dog” }?  Read More

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