How to Use Wildcard Characters in Excel (Examples)

There are three wildcard characters in Excel:
1. * (asterisk) - It represents any number of characters. For example, ex* could mean excel, excels, example, expert, etc.
2. ? (question mark) - It represents one single character. For example, Tr?mp could mean Trump or Tramp.
3. ~ (tilde) - It is used to identify a wildcard character (~, , ?) in the text. For example, let’s say you want to find the exact phrase excel in a list.
In this tutorial, learn how to use Wildcard Characters in Excel.
Examples include:
- Counting Non-blank Cells using Wildcard Characters.
- Doing a Partial Look-up.
- To Find and Replace Partial Matches.
- To Filter using Wildcard Characters in Excel.
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[@javedahmed8343]

Excellent explanation with example coupled with F9 key

[@siyabppppp]

Thanks , its very helpful

[@mon_rich5366]

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[@xaviertirkey8841]

Vry much Tq Sir

[@nathanosullivan8687]

very well explained - thanks!

[@monireachtang712]

This is absolutely useful!

[@sujithortan5773]

You're amazing

[@vascopatricio2]

Thank you

[@chandanlimma3443]

you are awesome sir

[@quan116]

Great example! Now I know "*" can also mean 0 number of characters

[@MySpreadsheetLab]

Great Excel wildcard video (and post) Sumit !

[@NatureVideo___]

You have an amazing knowledge of excel sir. Thank you for sharing :)

[@samipiyash9322]

great tutorial

[@racheldavis7062]

For the Vlookup function, is there a way to go the opposite way (i.e, look up ABC ltd and get ABC?)

[@jagans9310]

Hi I need help , every day I have to type many due date and effective date in excel , while typing date am using slash for ex: mm/dd/yyyy can we make slash should default come in excel column.......I have to type only num slash shd automatically come..... please help

[@JamesBond-qg5gx]

It’s better if you increase the view size of your excel because it is very small for us if we view in mobile

[@Berghiker]

How do I look-up one word in a sentence within one cell? It must also highlight the word.

[@AmitKumarSingh-qz1cp]

Thank you