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I have a long series of numbers which contains the asterisk symbol (*). How
can I remove this symbol from these many numbers?
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Click Edit, Replace. leave "replace with" blank

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What you forgot to say, Bob, was that the "Find what" should be ~*, in other
words a tilde in front of the asterisk.
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What you forgot to say, Bob, was that the "Find what" should be ~*, in other
words a tilde in front of the asterisk.
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Click Edit, Replace. leave "replace with" blank

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I have a long series of numbers which contains the asterisk symbol (*).
How can I remove this symbol from these many numbers?





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