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Requesting Assistance with Diacritic Search Functionality
I use diacritics in Word and PowerPoint to accurately transliterate Arabic words. For instance, 'hadith' is written as 'ḥadīth', and 'kitab' as 'kitāb', using diacritical marks such as ā, ī, ū, ṣ, ḍ,...
You've mentioned attempting to use wildcards in the advanced find option in Word. This method can be enhanced to work more effectively with diacritics by using specific wildcard characters to substitute for any letter:
Use the ? wildcard to represent any single character.
Use the * wildcard to represent any string of characters.
For example, to search for "ḥadīth" without typing diacritics, you might input h?d*th. This will match any single character in place of "ḥ" and any string of characters in place of "ī".