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A wildcard is a character that can be used to represent either a single alpha-numeric character or multiple characters in a word or sentence. Asterisks (*) and question marks (?) are the two primary wildcards.
The customary way to find someone that goes by the name of Jim or Jimmy would be to perform two separate searches. Instead of searching for both names separately, you could use the asterisk (*) wildcard, by entering Ji* in the name search box. The search will use "Ji" as the beginning criteria, and will also display words with any characters following "Ji", such as Jim, Jimmy or even Jill.
The question mark (?) wildcard can be used in the same way, but only for a single character.
The most common use for a wildcard is in legal searches. Wildcards can be used in many ways for legal searches.
By typing S17 T14 R16* in the free-form legal search box, you will see all legals within "S17 T14 R16". You would also see more detailed legal description in the system such as "S17 T14 R16 S2 S2 NW", and "S17 T14 R16 N2 NE NW".
If you wanted to search for a more specific legal such as "S17 T14 R16 S2" and also see all possible legals more specific then place the asterisk (*) after the S2. The resulting legal descriptions would use "S17 T14 R16 S2" as the required information and would also include all possibilities past S2, such as "S17 T14 R16 S2 S2 NW" and "S17 T14 R16 S2 NE NW".
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