Winword Replace Wildcard Characters

Metacharacter	Description	Example
?	Any single character	s?t finds "sat" and "set".
*	Any string of characters	s*d finds "sad" and "started".
@	One or more occurrences of the previous character or expression.	lo@t finds "lot" and "loot".
<	The beginning of a word	<(inter) finds "interesting" and "intercept", but not "splintered".
>	The end of a word	(in)> finds "in" and "within", but not "interesting".
[a]	One of the specified characters	w[io]n finds "win" and "won".
[A-Za-z]	Any single character in this range	[r-t]ight finds "right" and "sight". Ranges must be in ascending order.
[!A-Z]	Any single character except the characters in	t[!a-m]ck finds "tock" and "tuck", but not the range inside the brackets "tack" or "tick".
{1}	Exactly n occurrences of the previous character or expression.	fe{2}d finds "feed" but not "fed".
{2,}	At least n occurrences of the previous character or expression.	fe{1,}d finds "fed" and "feed"
{1,3}	From n to m occurrences of the previous character or expression	10{1,3} finds "10", "100", and "1000".
^13	Carriage Return
()	Pattern group ([A-Z])
\1	First Pattern group	\1 - finds first pattern group and appends a hyphen