If you are talking about cleaning up data that has been imported from the web,
then you might want to take a look at Dave McRitchie's Trimall macro which will
zap that garbage but good!!

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 00/02/03

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"ali" wrote in message
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Does anyone know ofa macro that when run will clear all 'special'
characters out of a cell or selection of cells leaving just numbers or
text characters behind?

Thanks


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