# Searching for asterisks

**URL:** <https://resource.dopus.com/t/searching-for-asterisks/3198>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [April 10, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/searching-for-asterisks/3198 "2007-04-10T08:20:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cocoman](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@cocoman](https://resource.dopus.com/u/cocoman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/searching-for-asterisks/3198/1 "2007-04-10T08:20:06Z")

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I have a directory of word documents that I need to search for asterisks. Is there a way to do this with opus?

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**Author:** ![cocoman](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@cocoman](https://resource.dopus.com/u/cocoman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/searching-for-asterisks/3198/2 "2007-04-10T09:06:41Z")

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I've tried using \* for finding them but no dice.

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/searching-for-asterisks/3198/3 "2007-04-10T09:46:35Z")

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For text files you would just search for \* and make sure the wildcards checkbox below was clear.

The reason it's not working is that Opus doesn't currently have the ability to search the contents of Word documents.

If it's just a one-off query then Explorer's search function should do the job (assuming you have Office installed).