Find and replace problems with RegExp

I am having problems geting the find/replace to work the way i want it to using RegExp.

The object is to paste in some code to have checked for cetain items and replaced by others.

My problem seems to come after adding a "" as a replace item

I want to replace all instances of:
<font FACE="WP TypographicSymbols" SIZE="2">=
or
<font FACE="WP TypographicSymbols">=
with the ' character.

I used this block of code below to find and replace the Size="2" portion with "" which i thought is empty string
strBadHtml= " size=""\d{1,}"""
strTouchupHtml= ""
objHtmlExp.Pattern = strBadHtml
ConvertTo = objHtmlExp.Replace(ConvertTo, strTouchupHtml)

the second block of code i have is :
strBadHtml= "<font\s*\r*FACE=""WP\s*\r*TypographicSymbols""\s*\r*>\s*\r*="
strTouchupHtml= "'" 'to mark up with replace quote
objHtmlExp.Pattern = strBadHtml
ConvertTo = objHtmlExp.Replace(ConvertTo, strTouchupHtml)
which seems to work until i encounter word wrap

if the original was wrapped over 2 lines as below:
<font FACE="WP TypographicSymbols"
SIZE="2">=

It does not react as I want it to
I don't know if it's because i replaced size with "" or not

Can someone help with this please?
Struggling with this big time:
Thanks