I want to delete whatever text between certain "tags" (note that I need
to remove html css comments as well as PHP comments)

so I have the following code

Sub EliminarCSSComments()

Dim oRng As Range
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Content
With oRng.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Text = "/#*#/"
 .Forward = True
 .Wrap = wdFindStop 'para cuando se llega al final del documento
 .MatchWildcards = True
 Do While .Execute
   oRng.Select
   MsgBox "encontro"
   oRng.Delete
 Loop
End With

this works quite well if I wanted to delete text between /# and #/

see for instance this example

if I have
/#  this should be removed   #/
/#  this should /be re#moved   #/

both lines will be deleted.

but in the other hand, when I want to delete the text between /* and */
(wich is actually what I need), the code won't work as expected

for instance, if I have

/* this should be removed    */
/* this sho/uld be r*emoved   */

the result is

uld be r*emoved   */

note that I tryied with the following text to search

   .Text = "/" + Chr(42) + "*" + Chr(42) + "/"
   '.Text = "/* */"
   '.Text = "/*/"
   '.Text = "/\*?{1,}\*/"
   '.Text = "/**/"
   '.Text = "</*>*<*/>"
   '.Text = "/\*?{1,}\*/"

the problem seems to be that i need to search for asterisks(*), which
are seen by Word as wildcards...

any hint?

sdos - jm