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Is it possible to use wildcard characters with the Find or Restrict methods using VBA from Word 97. It seems that =,&gt;,&lt;,&lt;&gt;,&gt;=,&lt;=,And,Or and Not are the only operators available. If thats the case how do you look up all the people with &quot;Smith&quot; in their name ex. Smithson,Blacksmith or just plain Smith?
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Is it possible to use wildcard characters with the Find or Restrict methods using VBA from Word 97. It seems that =,>,<,<>,>=,<=,And,Or and Not are the only operators available. If thats the case how do you look up all the people with "Smith" in their name ex. Smithson,Blacksmith or just plain Smith?

Using the Find/Restrict method with wildcard characters

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