I am trying to do a wildcard search that should begin its match in the text
of a hyperlink and continue to match characters outside of the hyperlink. It
seems like the boundary of the hyperlink contains a character that I cannot
match.

I can break the search into two pieces and each component works properly.
The two expressions find text that appears to be contiguous, but when the
components are combined into one search, it does not match.

Here is a very simplified example where the a tag indicates the link, but
does not actually appear in the text of the Word document.

Word Document - aThe Link/a does not match

Find - The link?

No match

I hope I have explained the problem clearly and someone can help. Thanks.