Yes, it would be easier with the attachments, wouldn't it …
- first graphic – not referring to a style in the search means I can skip happily through every single * in the file
- second graphic – restricting my search to style :ttx only picks up the * in paragraphs with the specified style
So if I knew how to say
search for a real asterisk and anything after it, in content with the style :ttx applied then I could delete what I'd found; or even chunk the search and delete just the text after the * – but I don't speak Word regex