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Default How do I search without wildcards?

Hi, I'm trying to perform a search in a worksheet containing wildcard
characters (? and *) and I need to be able to find cells with the wildcard
characters themselves, e.g.
A1: What is your name?
A2: Your rating is *****
A3: This cell contains no wildcards.

If I press Ctrl+F (Find) and search for "?", it matches any single character
(rather than the ? character in cell A1). If I search for "*", it matches
any cell with values in (rather than the any of 5 stars in cell A2).

Is there a way of disabling wildcard matching or "escaping" the wildcard
characters themselves?
 
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