Using Wildcard Characters A wildcard character allows you to substitute one character for another character or for many characters. The wildcard characters include: - Asterisk (*) - Ellipsis (...) - Percent (%) - Period (.) For example, to search your file list for all the files that have a COM file type: 1. Click on the File Filter entry field. 2. Using the asterisk wildcard ( *), enter the following: *.COM 3. Click on the Apply button. In this example, the asterisk character is used as a substitute for all the file names. FileView searches for all the files whose file type is COM. These files are then displayed in the file list. Additional topics: * Searching a Directory Structure With Search Wildcards