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Represented by a variety of wildcard combinations, there is often more than one way of Because different combinations of characters can be Wildcards are combined with regular text and formatting options to represent the characters or The secret of using wildcard searches is to identify the unique string of text that you wish to find. This tutorial pre-supposes that the user will have some basic experience of Word's 'replace' function.