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I am importing information from our accounting program. one of the
columns has text containing product name and after several of the
product names there is a *. This is used by the accounting program to
designate differential pricing. Is there a way to sort for the text
containing the * so I can delete from the text. an example would be as
follows

dekalb 1543t*

Thanks


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Maybe you could just do a mass change:

select the range to fix
edit|replace
what: ~*
with: (leave blank)
replace all

Since the asterisk represents a wild card, you need that tilde to tell excel
that you really want the asterisk character--not the wild card.

cencoit wrote:

I am importing information from our accounting program. one of the
columns has text containing product name and after several of the
product names there is a *. This is used by the accounting program to
designate differential pricing. Is there a way to sort for the text
containing the * so I can delete from the text. an example would be as
follows

dekalb 1543t*

Thanks

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Thanks that worked great


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