Wild Cards

You can expand your search results using wild cards:

• Asterisk * – This can represent any part of a word. Use an asterisk as a substitute for part of a word in your search

• Question mark ? – This can represent any letter of a word. Use a question mark to substitute a letter in a word in your search

 

Here are some examples of search results that might be returned if you use these symbols as wild cards:

• Smith – Smith

• Smi* – Smith, Smithsonian, Smiley, and Smithson (any word that starts with Smi)

• Smit?s* – Smithsonian or Smithson (any word that starts with Smit and has a single character between it and an s)

• Sm*th – Smith or Smooth (any word that starts with Sm and ends in th)

• Sm??? – Smith, Smyth, Small (any word that starts with Sm and ends in any three characters)