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[jmone]

Can you use wildcards in the "Find What" field under Rename, Move, & Copy Files?  Eg, I want to enter in "Find What:" say "Track*" and it will match with Track1, Track2 etc etc

[fitbrit]

Can you use wildcards in the "Find What" field under Rename, Move, & Copy Files?  Eg, I want to enter in "Find What:" say "Track*" and it will match with Track1, Track2 etc etc

If I understand what you are trying to say in your example, the * isn't needed. It's implicit. If you select a whole bunch of files, simply put "Track" in Find What, and say, "Song" in Replace with, all instances of the word Track will be changed to Song. Just be sure that you won't find the word Track in the file's path if you just want to change the file name.
Am I misunderstanding you?

Now for the Find and Replace, I'd love to see the wildcard!

[MrC]

I think jmone wants to include the numbers, etc. that would follow the word Track as part of the replacement.

It would be nice if the Find What portion accepted an RE and allowed the matches to be used in the Replace section.  Then you'd have general RE match/replacement here (more flexible and powerful than wildcards).

[jmone]

I take it the answer is "no" but my example is currently it works like this:

I can replace "XYZ" with "123" to get
  C:\Music\XYZ\Track1  --> C:\Music\123\Track1
  C:\Music\XYZ\Track2  --> C:\Music\123\Track2
  C:\Music\XYZ\Track3  --> C:\Music\123\Track3

But if I want to replace "Y*Z" with "123" to get
  C:\Music\XaZ\Track1  --> C:\Music\123\Track1
  C:\Music\XbZ\Track2  --> C:\Music\123\Track2
  C:\Music\XcZ\Track3  --> C:\Music\123\Track3 or even
  C:\Music\XabcZ\Track4 --> C:\Music\123\Track4