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Doing Wildcard or Regex Search in Word with the Find Tool
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Michael DeBellis
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I'm using Word on Windows 11 on a desktop. Is there a way to do something like a Regex or Wildcard search? I see that in the find they talk about using wildcards but I couldn't get it to work. I'm writing something technical and for names of properties I changed my standard from naming such as has_Father to has_father. I think I got them all but I would like to do a search for any underscore followed by a capital letter to make sure. Thanks in advance for any help.
Michael
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Stefan Blom 339.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2025-11-05T18:27:32.78+00:00
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Viorel 126.9K Reputation points2025-11-05T17:07:23.7533333+00:00 In the Advanced Find dialog, select the Use wildcards option, and try this text:
_[A-Z]. This should work for Latin letters.-
Jay Freedman 207.6K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2025-11-06T00:21:58.8233333+00:00 In order to see the Use wildcards check box, you must first click the More button in the dialog to expand the bottom half.
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Michael DeBellis 60 Reputation points
2025-11-06T23:36:22.45+00:00 Thanks guys. I'm not sure what was happening before because I was trying this but for some reason it wasn't working. I must have forgotten to enable wildcards or something. In any case this worked and I can be sure I found everything that needs to be changed. Thanks a lot!!