I previously had a Word document using wild cards. I would use a Find and Replace using “&” as my delimiter and “*” as my Wildcard. When I had a phrase such as the following:

&On average, how many hours of sleep are you getting each night?&
On average, the patient reports getting Click or tap here to enter text. hours of sleep a night.

the text between the &’s disappeared and what was left was:

On average, the patient reports getting Click or tap here to enter text. hours of sleep a night.

However, when I add another sentence beneath also delimited as follows:

&On average, how many hours of sleep are you getting each night?&
On average, the patient reports getting Click or tap here to enter text. hours of sleep a night. &[He/She/They] indicated, “Click or tap here to enter text.” &

When I run the Find and Replace again, the second sentence with &’s does not disappear:

On average, the patient reports getting Click or tap here to enter text. hours of sleep a night.
&[He/She/They] indicated, “Click or tap here to enter text.” &

Bizarrely, sometimes the second delimited sentence does disappear when it looks identical to the one above, for instance:

&Have you ever been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD?&
The patient Choose an item. been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. &[He/She/They] was diagnosed at age Click or tap here to enter text. [He/She/They] reported, “Click or tap here to enter text.” &

I tried using a second delimiter such as “%” and “$”. It does not show above but the “&” are highlighted. The first in purple and the second in red. I tried removing the highlighting but this did not fix the proble.