Thank you.

I thought it was something like that with asterisks and some sort of bracket. And while it's on the right track (and I think it should work), it's not working.

Tell me if this happens to you, please.

Here's what I'm doing.
(note : I tried this on two computers with Word 2010 and Word 2013)


New blank document.
"The man was awakened by something stuck in his craw along the jawline."
Find & Replace (accessed by ctrl+h)
Find what: <*aw*>
use wildcards
Replace with: ^&
all caps
Replace All

The result : "THE MAN WAS AWAKENED BY SOMETHING STUCK IN HIS CRAW ALONG THE JAWLINE."
Word has completed its search of the document and has made 3 replacements.

When I step-though the find-replace by pressing REPLACE instead of REPLACE ALL, I can see how Word thinks. When I start again fresh I see that Word selects and replaces these 3 :

"The man was awakened"
"by something stuck in his craw"
"along the jawline."

So Word found all 3 instances of "aw" in the words "awakened", "craw" and "jawline", but somehow selected more than the word itself. It selected all the characters from the leading position of it previous search to the end of the word containing "aw", and so in it's logic found 3 instances within the sentence.