find replace * not wildcard

[Badnames]

I am trying to do a find replace on formulas that include * for multiplication. A lot of cells that have *12, *11, *10, etc. and I want to replace all of these to be *1. When I try to do a find replace of '*12' it replaces everything prior to the *12 since the * is flagged as the wildcard. Does anyone know how to not replace everything prior, i.e. not use * as the wildcard?

 

[Rick Rothstein]

In the Find field, precede the asterisk with a tilde symbol (~*).

 

[Fluff]

Try ~*12

 

[Nine Zero]

Use the ~ before the star like so
~*

 

[Badnames]

Great that worked. Is there a way to replace everything after the * with nothing? I.e. if I want to find/replace everything after my current * with 1 regardless of what is after the *? So if I have *12, *11, *10, *9 -- change them all to *1 in one go?

 

[Badnames]

Think I may have got it -- I changed the find replace to say ~** and then did a replace with *1.