How To Query A Wildcard Character (1 Viewer)

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I am exporting Excel data from a website and importing it into an Access database. Certain entities within the data are marked with an asterisk (*). For example, *Jones, *Williams, etc. I need to identify these in an update query. In the criteria field I have used Like "*", Like "**", and Like "***". This doesn't work.

What does?

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Enclosed in square bracket:

Like "*[*]*"
 

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That was it. Thanks.
 

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