[the]

No problem.

I did it using MS Word's "Find and Replace All" feature.

First replace the spaces with " ",
then replace the left brackets with "<",
the right brackets with ">",
and finally replace the paragraph breaks with "<br>".

I came up with this trick a while back, and it seems to work OK. Maybe I should write a macro to do it automatically.

[backhoe]

Neat trick- I'd swear I tried that to strip those blasted brackets out of some emails and couldn't get it to work, but I'll try again!