Use wildcards

A wildcard character is a placeholder used to enlarge your search results by using inexact or variable search strings.

Activate the icon Use wildcards in the Find dialog

Wildcard character	Description	Example
?	Any single character except space or tab or .()[]\|\*+-/:=<>&;,	`te??1` finds text1 or temp1
*	Any character (occuring 0 or more times) except space or tab or .()[]\|\*+-/:=<>&;,	`test` finds test, tests or tester `tst` finds test or toast
\?	Explicitly find a question mark	`te?t\?` finds test? or text?
\*	Explicitly find an asterisk	`test\` finds test, tests or tester*

Search for \ characters (backslash) with wildcards

All \ characters that appear in the search text immediately before the wildcard characters *, \*, ?, \? must be escaped by a \ character.

Search expression	Description
\\*	Finds \ followed by any character (0 or more times)
\\\*	Finds \ followed by the * character
\\\\*	Finds \\ followed by any character (0 or more times)
\\\\\*	Finds \\ followed by the * character
\\?	Finds \ followed by any single character
\\\?	Finds \ followed by the ? character
\\\\?	Finds \\ followed by any single character
\\\\\?	Finds \\ followed by the ? character