Help Finding * Character in Spread Sheet

Hello,

I have a very large spreadsheet in Excel 2010 and I need to go through and find all the *'s in it. The only problem is that Excel seems to take the * to mean "anything" when searching. (find "*" will look for any sequence of characters between quotes). I tried using various escape characters like putting a \ before it but that just searches for a \ with any sequence of characters after it.

I spent a while on the internet trying to find a solution to this but I didn't come up with anything.

Is there a way to search for the * character in Excel?

Thanks,

Matt

search for ~* (tilde followed by asterisk).