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SED and wildcards

I am using this code to locate and modify one particular ID in a file containing thousands of entries
Code:
sed 's/^>OldID/>NewID/g' Infile > Outfile

How can I modify the code so I can rename all old IDs to a new unique ID?
I tried this
Code:
sed 's/^>*/>NewID/g' Infile > Outfile

but it did not work.
Thanks in advance
 
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NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
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