PSE7: Find all photos with any caption?

I'm running PSE7.
I have a sub-set of my images selected via a tag.
Now I want to find all of images in that set that have any caption at all.
So I do a Find/By Caption or Note.
Now in the next dialog box is there some way that I can enter a wild card or something
that will find any image that has anything in it at all?
Thanks for any help!

Ouch!!
Well, I understand the solution you described.
Let me back up a bit. And describe what I'm trying to accomplish.
I take a bunch of pictures and I bring them in Organizer.
I go through them quickly adding 'notes' to them.
Who the people are, where this is, etc. etc.
I just add them in the Caption because that is a single click in Organizer.
Very easy.
But I don't add captions to every image.
Later I go back and I want to add Text to these images in Editor.
Basically, I want to permanently include my 'notes' with these images.
So anytime someone views or prints the jpeg they are going to see my notes.
So my original question was how I can select that group of captioned images
in Organizer. Then I was going to Ctrl-i and get them all into Editor.
But maybe there is another way for me to select just those images?
In Organizer, it seems the only way I can 'see' the captions is when the image
is in 'Single Photo View'. Which is ok. But as far as I can tell, when I am in
Single Photo View I can't 'Select' that image. Maybe I'm missing something.
Anyway, if I could Select that image, then I would just move through the rest
of my images in Organizer. When I saw another captioned one I would want
to do the equivalent of Ctrl-click. Adding that image to the other images that
I have selected.
Well, that's the story. Is there another way I can skin this cat?
Thanks!

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