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Finding Letters in Words
If you are uncertain about how to spell a word, type a
question mark (?) in place of each unknown letter. To
find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts of words, type
an asterisk (
✽
) in a word. Each asterisk stands for a
series of letters. Note: If you type an asterisk at the
beginning of a word, it may take a little while to find
the matching words.
1. Go to any word entry screen.
You can access a word entry screen by selecting
Collins Desktop Plus, Collins Concise Thesaurus,
Crossword Solver’s Dict., Definition Search, or
Multibook Search from the Books menu.
2. Type a word with ?s and
✽
s.
To type an asterisk, hold down CAP and press ?.
