Use the wildcard characters to search for variations on words. The wildcard characters you use in a search are:

The asterisk (*)

The question mark (?)

Wildcards can be used in all search fields except for Foundation State.

The asterisk ( * ) wildcard finds words with variations on several letters at the end of a word.

1. Click in the Text Search field to place your cursor there.

2. Type art*.

3. Click Search. All records containing the words art, arts, artistic, etc are returned.

The question mark ( ? ) wildcard finds words with variations on a single letter anywhere in a word.

1. Click in the Text Search field to place your cursor there.

2. Type f?rm.

3. Click Search. This search statement will match form, farm, firm, etc.