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Default Removing vowels from words...

Just to add to Bob's formula.

=substitute() is case sensitive (and I bet autocorrect changed his i to I <bg).

Another alternative:

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBST ITUTE(LOWER(A1),
"a",""),"e",""),"i",""),"o",""),"u","")





Bob Phillips wrote:

no VBA

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBST ITUTE(A1,"a",""),"e",""),"I",""),"o",""),"u","")

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How to remove vowels from words? Fpr example, in one row we have
google, excell, macro,... and the result in another row is ggl, xcll,
mcr,... Thanks.


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