Word Macro: Apply formatting to first character of style.

[zhangm Supervisor]

I have a Word document with many instances of in-text citations in numerical format, all with a specific style applied to them.

 

As far as I'm aware, Word is currently hard-coded to add a space between the preceding word and a following in-text citation e.g. the end of a sentence (1) rather than the end of a sentence(1). The space character cannot be removed in the citation field and it cannot be removed by editing the references and citation file, but formatting can be applied to it. The space is also always the leading character in the style applied to these citations. I think I'd like to work around the issue by applying size formatting to that space (or anything else creative to make it take up no space).

 

Anyway, if anyone knows their macros, how would I look through a document for all instances of a particular style, then apply some manipulation to the first character?