I have a worksheet that I have CAREFULLY typed all of the cells as text. The
worksheet has about 15,000 rows and 15 columns. In working with it, several
rather mysterious things have been found:
1. I want to find ?'s in the text and replace a few of them with another
character. I used the search function under edit and entered ? in the search
field. The result is that the function goes to the first cell A1, then A2,
and one at a time to the end of the row, and then to B1, and so on. None of
these cells contain a ?. What is going on here. How do I find a ?

2. I enter the string week 1 in a cell and want to replicate the string in
the following ten cells beneath the original entry. I select the cell with
the text week 1. position my cursor at the lower right corner (the cross hair
symbol comes up) and dray down 10 cells expecting the text to be replicated.
Instead the cells become week 2,
week 3, week 4, etc. This unwanted action occurs whenever the numeric text
is either the last or first string in the original cell. So the string 1 week
is replicated as 2 week, 3 week, etc. It also occurs if the original string
is week1 or 1week (no blanks around the numric string). How do I prevent this
unwanted action?

3. Some of the data in this worksheet comes from other excel spreadsheets.
The data was exported into a tab delimited file and then imported into this
worksheet. For some of the data, the imported text has a single quote
prefixed to the text string. If I select a cell and the contents appear in
the equation bar at the top of the page the single quote is clearly visible.
I can position my cursor and delete the quote and the string moves left a
bit. So at least to me, the text is real. However, if I print a portion of
the worksheet where the prefixed strings are found, the single quote does not
appear in printed data. After deleting the quote there does not seem to be
any negative impact on subsequent activity. What is happening here?

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Thanks for your help - jjk98