How to find * and replace with X

[shailujp]

I have a drawing that has texts as * and would like to replace with X using find/replace command. The AutoCAD understand or gets confused with * as wildcard and replaces all entities with X. Any ideas?

 

Using AutoCAD 2008.

 

Thanks

[MSasu]

Please expand FIND's dialog box (there should be a button with an arrow pointing down in its left-bottom corner) and un-check the Use Wildcards option.

[shailujp]

Dont have that option in 2008. See below snap

[MSasu]

Ooops, seems that the dialog was changed in new versions.

 

Please try to precede the wildcard with an apostrophe reverse-quote or a backslash and check if this aproach helps.

`*

or

\*

Edited March 24, 2014 by MSasu
Fixed the name of character

[shailujp]

Ahh..something worked. I dont know the character ` name but its above the Tab key (on the left of the 1 number). Thanks

[MSasu]

You were right, that isn't called apostrophe, but reverse-quote (fixed its name in my post too for further reference).

[BIGAL]

One above is the tilde, Fileia 0 Open then ~ see the diference ?