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Ken Wright Ken Wright is offline
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Default Delete all special characters in a selection?

Very true - Thanks for the clarification JE.

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"J.E. McGimpsey" wrote in message
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David's excellent macro zaps extra spaces and non-breaking-spaces
CHAR(160), but doesn't remove any other characters, nor does it
remove single spaces between other characters.

Guess it depends on what the OP considers "special".



In article ,
"Ken Wright" wrote:

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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