IBM Lotus Symphony


Using wildcards in text searches

You can use wildcards when you find and replace text in a document.

  1. Click Edit > Find and Replace.
  2. Select the Regular expressions check box.
  3. In the Search for field, type the search term and the one or more wildcards that you want to use in your search.
    • The wildcard for any string of characters is an asterisk.
    • The wildcard for a single character is a period (.).
    • The wildcard combination for several characters in succession is .* (period and asterisk). For example, "s*n" finds "sun" and "son". You can search for regular expressions only within paragraphs.
    • The wildcard combination for the end of a paragraph is the dollar sign ($), while the wildcard combination for the first character at the start of a paragraph is the caret and the period (^.).
  4. Click Find or Find All.

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