Peo,
Thanks for the suggestion but I did that, too. I did this find:
base=xyz~*cnty=???~*type=simple
For the replace string, I used this:
base=differentbase~*cntry=???~*type=simple
I also used this replace with the find above:
base=differentbase~**

The result in both cases was that the string got changed to the EXACT string
I typed in, tilde's and all.

John

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Precede the wildcard with a tilde

~* instead of *

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom