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Default Excel custom autofilter- how to find wildcard characters but not as wildcards (e.g. "?") in a cell

Ok, I'm embarrased by how dumb this question is... my customer has a
spreadsheet where they use "?" in a column, and I need to be able to quickly
filter (not sort) their worksheet to pull just the rows that have a "?" in
one of two target columns. I figured I could just do two auotfilters and
work from the results (e.g. that may leave me with some duplicates when I
combine the two results)- but the problem is that the custom autofilter
considers ? to be a single wildcard character. I also tried "?" (in quotes)
but that doesn't return any results at all, because the ? in each cell isn't
surrounded by quotes (same for '?').

Is it possible to use custom autofilter (contains = something) to determine
if a cell contains a questionmark?

Thanks!
Keith


 
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