How do you use wildcards in strings?
Wildcards (*,?,~) can be used in conditions to represent one or more characters. The & character is used to concatenate, or join, two or more strings or the contents of referenced cells. Some examples of the use of the concatenation operator are: "Abc"&"Def" returns "AbcDef".
What is the use of '_' wildcard characters?
To locate a specific item when you can't remember exactly how it is spelled, try using a wildcard character in a query. Wildcards are special characters that can stand in for unknown characters in a text value and are handy for locating multiple items with similar, but not identical data.