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We have some descriptions of parts that have an * (asterisk) in them
We need to find and replace the asterisk with a space or a dash, but since the * is a wildcard character find and replace will not work Any Suggestions? |
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Use ~* to find/replace *
~? to find/replace ? ~~ to find/replace ~ Jan wrote: We have some descriptions of parts that have an * (asterisk) in them We need to find and replace the asterisk with a space or a dash, but since the * is a wildcard character find and replace will not work Any Suggestions? -- Dave Peterson |
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have you tried ~*
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Jan" wrote in message ... We have some descriptions of parts that have an * (asterisk) in them We need to find and replace the asterisk with a space or a dash, but since the * is a wildcard character find and replace will not work Any Suggestions? |
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take a look at the "Wildcard characters you can use to find text or
numbers" topic in XL Help. There you'll see that you need to prefix asterisks (and question marks) with a tilde. In article , Jan wrote: We have some descriptions of parts that have an * (asterisk) in them We need to find and replace the asterisk with a space or a dash, but since the * is a wildcard character find and replace will not work Any Suggestions? |
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