Searching a chm

Hi there,
Anyone know how you search a chm for special characters? In our product, we have a group template with a [S] suffix. And I have documented these group templates in my help file. But if I want to find this section in the chm, how do I search for [S]? Using quotes (or double qoutes) doesn't work.
Many thanks, Nicky

Searching for [S] suffix in a CHM should find the result. However can you clarify what you mean by "templates". It sounds like this is just text in a topic somewhere. Perhaps if you give us a more concrete example of what you are trying to search on and where it appears in the text.
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