[Philos]

Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and the
box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All.
I use two words, for example Essene[!.]@will and click on "find next"
I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents
in the begginning; and 2,500 footnotes.
When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results at
all: not even a message that the search is completed.
Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time I
click on "find" the cursor/search would return to the beginning of the
document. When I clicked again on "find" again, sometimes the search would
continuue down from the point that it had returned back to the beginning.
I removed the Table of Contents and I get better results: more succesfull
finds. But still the searches keep coming back to the beginning of the
document and sometimes stop. I do not get a message that the search was
completed.