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Precede it with a tilde:
~?

Same would pertain to other wildcard:
~*
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Is there a way of searching the cells in a worksheet for the actual
character "?" since I don't want to use it as a wildcard but actually
search for the character itself within cells

Thanks in advance.


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And for that escape character, too.

~~
to search for just
~
(just to be complete.)

RagDyeR wrote:

Precede it with a tilde:
~?

Same would pertain to other wildcard:
~*
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HTH,

RD
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"Ian" wrote in message
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Is there a way of searching the cells in a worksheet for the actual
character "?" since I don't want to use it as a wildcard but actually
search for the character itself within cells

Thanks in advance.


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