I am trying to figure out how to use the power of Word's Find and Replace 
to search inside of string variables and then replace the found sequence 
with something else or in some cases to remove the found item from the 
variable. I assumed that the following example code would work, in this 
case I thought it would find 5 numerical digits inside the string variable 
sSample and remove them but it doesn't seem to work

Sub Macro2()
'
' Macro2 Macro
'
'
sSample = "aaaaaa43215aaaaaaaa"
sSampleReplaceString = "[0-9]{5}"


Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With sSample.Find
.Text = sSampleReplaceString
.Replacement.Text = ""
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute


End Sub

Can anyone tell me if what I am trying to do is possible. I would prefer to 
not have to first have to add the variable to the document and then find it 
separately and replace it from there. Thank you for your help.

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