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Wildcards

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Wildcards

Use the Wildcards setting in the Find and Replace dialog box, to use the following wildcards:

Wildcards Meaning
* Stands for any number of occurrences, including no occurrence, of a character, except a carriage return. For example, te*st stands for tst, test, teest, t123st, etc.
? Stands for one character, except a carriage return. For example, t?st stands for test, tast, etc.
# Stands for one digit. For example, te#st stands for te1st, te2st, etc.
[ ] Stands for one of the characters in brackets. [Abc],, for example, stands for a, b or c.
[! ] Excludes characters from the search. For example, [!0123456789] searches for all characters except the numbers 0 to 9.