You can use wildcards when you find and
replace text in a document.
- Click .
- Select
the Regular expressions check box.
- 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 (^.).
- Click Find or Find All.