So if you're asked on the exam to do a search using wildcards, don't forget to come in here and turn it on. I'll go ahead and click find next, and it's telling me it couldn't find anything, and that is all because I didn't click use wildcards. I'll ask it to find vet, V-E-T*, with an asterisk because I want anything that begins with V-E-T. Watch what happens if I don't turn use wildcards on. This is probably what you're used to seeing, just a simple find tab, replace tab and go to, but I do want to go ahead and expand our options by clicking more so that I can use wildcards. Now you might not be used to seeing everything in this window, and the reason that we can see these extra search options is I'm showing more or all of the options. Now to open the find and replace window, I can use a keyboard shortcut, ctrl+f for find or on my home tab I can come over and click find and do advanced find. We'll be working with the 0301 advanced find and replace, so let's jump right in. So for instance, l?w will find low and law in words such as below and lawful.

We use a question mark to represent a single character. The other wildcard that we'll discuss is a question mark. So it finds everything in between the J and the N.

We often use a simple find and replace to make multiple changes throughout a document all at once, but what if we're not sure of the spelling or if we want to capture more than just a simple find of a word? Well we can use wildcards, and the two that we're going to focus on today are asterisk, where we can find just a sequence in a word and here's an example J*n will find John, Jon and Joan.

Advanced find replace