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How to Find/Replace * (asterisk) in cell content
I need to clean up the entries in a description column in Excel. The problem
is that I need to find and replace each occurrence of an asterisk (*) in these descriptions. Since * happens to be the wildcard character, find/replace returns every cell in this list of 14,000 items and I know that there are hundreds of occurrences that I need to replace. How do you search for the wildcard * and replace it? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks |
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How to Find/Replace * (asterisk) in cell content
Hi,
Put a tilde ~ in front of the asterix in the search box and it will treat it a as a literal character instead of a wildcard Mike "Topmark" wrote: I need to clean up the entries in a description column in Excel. The problem is that I need to find and replace each occurrence of an asterisk (*) in these descriptions. Since * happens to be the wildcard character, find/replace returns every cell in this list of 14,000 items and I know that there are hundreds of occurrences that I need to replace. How do you search for the wildcard * and replace it? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks |
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How to Find/Replace * (asterisk) in cell content
try this
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"*","") On Oct 23, 9:22*pm, Topmark wrote: I need to clean up the entries in a description column in Excel. *The problem is that I need to find and replace each occurrence of an asterisk (*) in these descriptions. *Since * happens to be the wildcard character, find/replace returns every cell in this list of 14,000 items and I know that there are hundreds of occurrences that I need to replace. How do you search for the wildcard * and replace it? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks |
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How to Find/Replace * (asterisk) in cell content
Thanks for the quick response, the tilde did the trick.
"Mike H" wrote: Hi, Put a tilde ~ in front of the asterix in the search box and it will treat it a as a literal character instead of a wildcard Mike "Topmark" wrote: I need to clean up the entries in a description column in Excel. The problem is that I need to find and replace each occurrence of an asterisk (*) in these descriptions. Since * happens to be the wildcard character, find/replace returns every cell in this list of 14,000 items and I know that there are hundreds of occurrences that I need to replace. How do you search for the wildcard * and replace it? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks |
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How to Find/Replace * (asterisk) in cell content
Glad I could help
"Topmark" wrote: Thanks for the quick response, the tilde did the trick. "Mike H" wrote: Hi, Put a tilde ~ in front of the asterix in the search box and it will treat it a as a literal character instead of a wildcard Mike "Topmark" wrote: I need to clean up the entries in a description column in Excel. The problem is that I need to find and replace each occurrence of an asterisk (*) in these descriptions. Since * happens to be the wildcard character, find/replace returns every cell in this list of 14,000 items and I know that there are hundreds of occurrences that I need to replace. How do you search for the wildcard * and replace it? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks |
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