I learned of the >of [filename] command in Visual Studio 2008 to quickly locate and open a file. It is pretty handy until I wanted to find "web.config" where when I enter the . (period) VS automatically fills up the box with something I don't care about. and I learned that periods are a special symbol used as menu separator (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kcc7tke7(VS.80).aspx). I tried following the documentation by trying to use ^ (carrot) symbol and ended having something like >of web^.config, but it didn't help.
Any ideas?