Just to add...

Excel can use wildcards:
* for any characters
? for any single character
~ as an "escape" character to indicate that the next * or ? should be treated as
an asterisk or question mark--not as wild cards.

So if you're using an =vlookup() for instance, you can avoid wildcard problems
with a formula like:

=VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"),
Sheet2!$A:$B,2,FALSE)



kelly wrote:

Hi, all

i have a problem to lookup or replace words when it contains "~"
character.
every time i have to change it to "-" manualy. for there are lots of
"~" in the workfile, too much time has been wasted on it.
Can anybody have any idea to solve this?

thanks

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Dave Peterson