Word - Table Cell Markers

I am trying to do a wild card search in a table.  Names appear two
different ways - John Smith and John Smith*.  I want to find every time
John Smith appears WITHOUT an asterick.  So I type find John Smith[!/*].
This works for every instance of John Smith UNLESS John Smith is the
only thing in the cell and is followed by a cell marker, then it will not
find that instance of John Smith at all.  Why does it do this?  Does
anyone know of a way to do this?  Any help appreciated.




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Barbara Pfeiffer

I see this too, but I have not been able to find a workaround.

Since this forum does not get much traffic these days, you may want to try
reposting in the Word forum at Answers:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word?page=1&tab=all.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP