Wildcard search problem - perhaps ping Venky62?

Every time I open Find or Find-Replace, the window opens up with "Use
wildcards" checked. I can't find anything in the Options that might be
causing this, so I wonder whether Venky62 turned it on in his
Transpose macro, but didn't then include a line to turn it off? Can
this be remedied?

Also, if one is going to modify that macro a bit, would it be possible
to add a line or two to delete the space that Word adds when the
punctuation mark ends up after a close-parenthesis or close-quote? (It
can't simply say "Delete preceding space after transposing
characters," because if the transposed characters happened to be the
first two letters of a word, it would close the word up to the
preceding one.)