My grateful thanks to *Holger Bartel* and *Kaveh Bazargan* for their swift 
responses!
Yes, the question mark makes a huge difference!
This is a big step forward for me and grep - I could quite easily get 
crazed with power (but I won't).
Thanks again for your help!

On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 09:45:36 UTC+1 Holger Bartel wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> Try the following Find pattern with Grep turned on:
>
> </span>(.+)\:
>
> with this Replace pattern:
>
> </span><strong>\1</strong>:
>
> Hope this helps,
> Holger
>
>
>
> On 10. May 2023, at 10:32, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm just beginning to gently feel my way into grep at last, but I'm 
> stumped here.
> I want to isolate a string such as:
> </span>The Cat that walked by himself:
> I can't find how to include EVERY eventuality between </span> and the 
> colon at the end.
> I simply want to make whatever is between </span> and the colon, *bold*.
> So it would look like this:
> </span><strong>The Cat that walked by himself</strong>:
> Can you help please?
> Andy
>
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