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Default Finding Quotation marks in Search function

The easiest way I have found around the " problem. Is that I ctrl+c a
"(quotation mark). I then Ctrl+f, then Ctrl+v. And I then have the " in the
find what, section.
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"ahearn" wrote:

Thanks. That works.

"SteveG" wrote:


To find a " in a text string, you can use SEARCH("""",A1,1).

If you wanted you could use a formula like =SEARCH("""",A1,1)0 in
Conditional Formatting and copy to the rest of your range to fill all
the cells containing quotation marks a color.

OR you could use the Auto Filter and select "Custom" and Contains " for
your filter criteria.

Do you want to remove these from the data or just identify them for
some reason?

If you could provide a little more info that would be helpful so you
get the solution you are looking for.

Regards,
Steve


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