Wildcard characters for instant search

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The Blue Max

There are apparently no wildcard search characters for instant search in
Office 2007. It would be nice to have some wildcards available for more
flexible searches.

Furthermore, searching for items that include custom fields, for numeric
reference or index numbers, can be difficult without wildcards due to
anomalies in searching for numbers with character separators.

For example, the user may use a custom genealogical field for Outlook
Contacts to sort relatives according to relationship. In such a case, “Smith
51-10-00-00-00" up to “Smith 51-19-99-99-99" might represent a specific
branch of the family including children, grandchildren, etcetera in proper
birth order. As such, searching for “Smith 51-1" would presumably include
everyone in that family line shown above, unfortunately, the actual search
returns zero results.

Perhaps, the search engine is interpreting numbers and delimiters in a way
we do not understand. Nevertheless, we suspect that wildcard search
characters ( "?" for character or "*" for multiple characters) would help
with this type of a search, not to mention with many other more common
searches!

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