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I tried in Microsoft Word but that didn't work.

I also had Bluefish installed (similar to Notepad++ I think) - and this works perfectly to select (and remove) all [number] references

Thanks - just skipping them would work well for sound.

(But I'd still also like to also be able to remove them from the text .. )

I'm transcribing pubmed articles to mp3. There has to be a faster way to remove all those pesky references, than manually removing them one by one. References are in [1] of [1,3] format, so numbers (sometimes separated by a comma) in between brackets. I don't know if this can be done in TextAloud , ...