I'm far from an expert in using Wildcard terminology (I'm much more used to Regular Expressions), but I do know that the '*' character can give you results that you don't expect - since it means any number of characters. It matches the first row of your text, and each successive search (excluding one character at a time) also is a match. Then the next match afterwards is all of your text (since a space is a match for the * character) since the last match is to the final 9012 (all of the preceeding text will match that - any characters followed by a space, followed by any characters, followed by another space, followed by your 4 digit number, followed by a return)