Although... that won't match anything starting with a capital L, since all
wildcard searches are case specific. The following variation should work
with capitals as well, and won't match "long-living":

[lL][a-z,A-Z]@[gG]

If he wants hyphenated stuff to match, he could use:

[lL][! ]@[gG]

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Mark,

Use: l[! ]@g

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MarkN wrote:
Hello,

I was under the impression that if I do a wildard search using l*g
it will find words such as 'long' and 'lag' but not 'late arriving'.
When I use the above find criteria I pick up all three of these
examples.

Does anyone know how I can fix this so that I only find individual
words?