Acrobat support wildcard search?

I am a proofreader through the acrobat 7 professional and I always search some author name or other special characters (esp letter with a accent) in pdf file, can we use the wildcard in acrobat search? you know it's difficult to input the accent on the letter when searching, or there are any better means to that?
Another case, I want to make sure whether the author name (e.g. "Jackson R. Peter") in contributor list is to match the name in article opener, so I copy the name and open the search box to search, it can speed up the proofread and increase the quality. But sometimes the name in contributor list is abbreviated but which is full-spelled in article opener, how to match each other, vice versa.

It depends on:
a) text in the source document
b) how the source application prints/emits out it's content
c) the application used to generate PDF from the source application
Depending on how these interplay, spaces will or will not appear when you copy content. What you get here is " - ". Search typically ignores white spaces, so "David Morales-Morales" should give same results as "David Morales - Morales"

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