shailujp Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shailujp Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Dont have that option in 2008. See below snap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shailujp Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Ahh..something worked. I dont know the character ` name but its above the Tab key (on the left of the 1 number). Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 You were right, that isn't called apostrophe, but reverse-quote (fixed its name in my post too for further reference). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 One above is the tilde, Fileia 0 Open then ~ see the diference ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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