How can I use the " Find and Replace " function of MS Word to find and
replace entire strings beginning with <script> and ending with
</script> in a document. The objective is to find these two words and
all the intervening characters including the two and delete them
(replace them with nothing). I understand that using a wild card to
represent the intervening characters would do the trick, but I am
unable to make it work.

In the search and replace tool, use the wildcard option.
You have to use escape characters to escape out the
greater-than/less-than characters.

The string you will want to search for is \<script\>*\</script\>

The \ character is your escape character.

chellphill-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by ratan-ga on 10 Apr 2003 08:54 PDT

Please clarify what you mean as "escape out". And, how does it work.
Thanks

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Clarification of Answer by chellphill-ga on 10 Apr 2003 13:53 PDT

Hi  ratan-ga ,
To clarify "escaping out", the escape code "\" means to treat the
following character as a normal ASCII character. Without the escape
character, the ">" symbol would represent the meaning of "Greater
than" (e.g. 1>0 "one is greater than zero")
If you want, you should be able to just copy this, 

\<script\>*\</script\> 

And then paste it.

Hope this helps
Thanks!
chellphill-ga

Great answer.