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In a excel spreadsheet i want to find * and replace it with "" (null). But
when i find * identifies every letter in the spreadsheet and clear my
spreadsheet. Can someone suggest me the way to acheive this.

Let say I have
1
2
*
3
4

I want to replace * from the column to blank "". Please suggest me a way.
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Use ~* to search

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| In a excel spreadsheet i want to find * and replace it with "" (null). But
| when i find * identifies every letter in the spreadsheet and clear my
| spreadsheet. Can someone suggest me the way to acheive this.
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| Let say I have
| 1
| 2
| *
| 3
| 4
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| I want to replace * from the column to blank "". Please suggest me a way.


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Edit Replace FindWhat: ~* ReplaceWith: nothing, leave blank
ReplaceAll

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In a excel spreadsheet i want to find * and replace it with "" (null). But
when i find * identifies every letter in the spreadsheet and clear my
spreadsheet. Can someone suggest me the way to acheive this.

Let say I have
1
2
*
3
4

I want to replace * from the column to blank "". Please suggest me a way.

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Use

~*

as your find string

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In a excel spreadsheet i want to find * and replace it with "" (null). But
when i find * identifies every letter in the spreadsheet and clear my
spreadsheet. Can someone suggest me the way to acheive this.

Let say I have
1
2
*
3
4

I want to replace * from the column to blank "". Please suggest me a way.

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Same thing with
? use ~?
* use ~*
~ use ~~

mrbalaje wrote:

In a excel spreadsheet i want to find * and replace it with "" (null). But
when i find * identifies every letter in the spreadsheet and clear my
spreadsheet. Can someone suggest me the way to acheive this.

Let say I have
1
2
*
3
4

I want to replace * from the column to blank "". Please suggest me a way.


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