Searching in the file explorer.

I am attempting to find away to search for files an folders that has codes included in the file names. I find that names in W11 file explorer only allows letters.
Example File Name:

Wr - Creating a system restorepoint

The file explore can recognize the corresponding letters in a name. It appears that it cannot recognize the spaces and punctuation. Is there a way to have the file explorer search for and recognize Wr and the space and dash mark together in a file name?

Spaces are allowed in creating the file name but some characters have been prohibited in file names since the days of DOS like the ?, slashes [used in the path and URLs], will pop up an error when tried.

Have you tried the search program named Everything?

If there are any special characters in your filenames (including spaces etc...) use "filename" to search (with " at the begining and end of filename)

You can use "Part name*" (with asterisk) in this case all files with "Part name" at begining of the filename will be listed

Or "Part name??" where ? represent any character, but with ? you specify how many characters are there

Hi all.. have a nice day

BunnyJ said:

Hi all.. have a nice day

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You too Jeff