diff --git a/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/DisplayText.cs b/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/DisplayText.cs
index f7e76388..6e92e882 100644
--- a/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/DisplayText.cs
+++ b/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/DisplayText.cs
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ namespace Volian.Controls.Library
 			// (\\[^v' \\]+)*   --> look for rtf commands but exclude \' before the \v
 			// \\v(\\[^v \\]+)* --> look for rtf commands after the \v
 			// if it turns out that if ro's have any embedded unicode characters this needs expanded, such as /u8209? (hard hyphen)
-      string lookFor = string.Format(@"<START\](\\[^v \\]+)*\\v0(\\[^v \\]+)*( |\\u[0-9]{{1,4}}?|\\'[0-9a-fA-F]{{2}}|\\[{{}}~])(.*?)(\\[^v'? \\]+)*\\v(\\[^v \\]+)* #Link:(ReferencedObject|Transition[^:]*?):.*?\[END>");
+			string lookFor = string.Format(@"<START\](\\[^v \\]+)*\\v0(\\[^v '?{{}}~\\]+)*( |\\u[0-9]{{1,4}}?|\\'[0-9a-fA-F]{{2}}|\\[{{}}~])(.*?)(\\[^v '?{{}}~\\]+)*\\v(\\[^v \\]+)* #Link:(ReferencedObject|Transition[^:]*?):.*?\[END>");
 			MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(text, lookFor);
 			string prevValue = null;
 			for (int i = matches.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
@@ -445,7 +445,6 @@ namespace Volian.Controls.Library
 					if (!_MyItemInfo.ActiveFormat.PlantFormat.FormatData.ROData.AllUnits) prevValue = newvalue;
 					newvalue = DoROReplaceWords(_MyFormat.PlantFormat.FormatData.SectData.ReplaceStrList, newvalue, _MyItemInfo.IsHigh);
 					if (isSetpoint)	newvalue = ReplaceSpaceWithHardspace(newvalue);
-          newvalue = newvalue.Replace("{", @"\{").Replace("}", @"\}");
 					if (gg != newvalue)
 						text = text.Substring(0, myIndex) + newvalue + text.Substring(myIndex + myLength);
 				}
@@ -502,7 +501,7 @@ namespace Volian.Controls.Library
 		{
 			bool undtran = _MyItemInfo.ActiveFormat.PlantFormat.FormatData.TransData.Underline;
 			string strippedText = StaticStripRtfCommands(text);
-      string lookFor = string.Format(@"<START\](\\[^v \\]+)*\\v0(\\[^v \\]+)*( |\\u[0-9]{{1,4}}?|\\'[0-9a-fA-F]{{2}}|\\[{{}}~])(.*?)(\\[^v \\u]+)*\\v(\\[^v \\]+)* #Link:(ReferencedObject|Transition[^:]*?):[0-9]* ([0-9]*).*?\[END>");
+			string lookFor = string.Format(@"<START\](\\[^v \\]+)*\\v0(\\[^v'?{{}}~ \\]+)*( |\\u[0-9]{{1,4}}?|\\'[0-9a-fA-F]{{2}}|\\[{{}}~])(.*?)(\\[^v'?{{}}~ \\]+)*\\v(\\[^v \\]+)* #Link:(ReferencedObject|Transition[^:]*?):[0-9]* ([0-9]*).*?\[END>");
 			MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(text, lookFor);
 			if (matches.Count == 0) return text;
 			string retstr = text;
@@ -525,7 +524,6 @@ namespace Volian.Controls.Library
               myLength += m.Groups[3].Length;
             }
             string newvalue = text.Substring(myIndex, myLength);
-            newvalue = newvalue.Replace("{", @"\{").Replace("}", @"\}");
             //System.Text.RegularExpressions.Group g = m.Groups[3];
 						string beforeTran = retstr.Substring(0, myIndex);
 						string afterTran = retstr.Substring(myIndex + myLength);
diff --git a/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/GridItem.cs b/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/GridItem.cs
index 5a3295e4..e539b6d5 100644
--- a/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/GridItem.cs
+++ b/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/GridItem.cs
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ namespace Volian.Controls.Library
 						{
 							// see if there are any links and save these so that any deleted ROs or transitions in the
 							// steprtb can have associated usages/transitions records removed from the database.
-              string lookFor = string.Format(@"<START\](\\[^v \\]+)*\\v0(\\[^v \\]+)*( |\\u[0-9]{{1,4}}?|\\'[0-9a-fA-F]{{2}}|\\[{{}}~])(.*?)(\\[^v \\]+)*\\v(\\[^v \\]+)* #Link:(ReferencedObject|Transition[^:]*?):.*?\[END>");
+							string lookFor = string.Format(@"<START\](\\[^v \\]+)*\\v0(\\[^v '?{{}}~\\]+)*( |\\u[0-9]{{1,4}}?|\\'[0-9a-fA-F]{{2}}|\\[{{}}~])(.*?)(\\[^v '?{{}}~\\]+)*\\v(\\[^v \\]+)* #Link:(ReferencedObject|Transition[^:]*?):.*?\[END>");
 							MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches((string)MyFlexGrid[r, c], lookFor);
 							for (int i = matches.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
 							{