Thanks guys! I am going to use ~ the next. I was in a rush so I copied the
spreadsheet into Word, replaced the * with a blank. When it worked I copied
and pasted it back into Excel - too many steps but in a pinch it worked.

Take care, Anna

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

* is a wildcard.

Preface your search string with a Tilde

~*


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:06:05 -0700, Anna
wrote:

I am using Excel 2003 - I have a spreadsheet which I imported from my Outlook
contacts. Most of the names came over with an "*" at the end and I need to
remove it because I am using this list to create labels.

When I go into Find & Replace, replace all removes the WHOLE name in the
cell. Is there a macro or formula I can use to remove the asterisk?

Thanks!