Hi Paul,

Try using the ChrW function, e.g.:

rRange.Replace What:=ChrW(193), _
Replacement:="A", _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns

To determine the individual character codes see Chip Pearson's CellView
addin:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CellView.htm


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Regards,
Norman


"Paul hampson" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply Norman.

I used the =code () fucntion that you suggested but all 60 characters
came
up with the code "63". To check I had done it correctly I add "XXX" (as
these
are English characters) and got 88 for that cell. As you understand, there
is
a problem as the VBA does not seem to recognize non English characters.

At the moment the only work around I have is to create a macro in Open
Office and use that. This is obviously not a good route to go, but it
seems
to work.

But I really need to trace the source of this problem because it may have
other repercussions that I haven't traced, and since I work on mission
critical data ,this is important.

I have tried the code on several machines at our company not one of them
works.

Below is the complete code:
Sub GISCO_subs_BSI()
Dim rRange As Range
Set rRange = Selection.Cells
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(192), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(193), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(194), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(195), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(196), Replacement:="AE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(197), Replacement:="AA", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(198), Replacement:="AE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(199), Replacement:="C", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(200), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(201), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(202), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(203), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(204), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(205), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(206), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(207), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(208), Replacement:="D", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(209), Replacement:="N", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(210), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(211), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(212), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(214), Replacement:="OE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(216), Replacement:="OE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(217), Replacement:="U", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(218), Replacement:="U", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(219), Replacement:="U", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(220), Replacement:="UE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(221), Replacement:="Y", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(222), Replacement:="P", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(223), Replacement:="SS", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(224), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(225), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(226), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(227), Replacement:="A", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(228), Replacement:="AE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(229), Replacement:="AA", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(230), Replacement:="AE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(231), Replacement:="C", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(232), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(233), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(234), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(235), Replacement:="E", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(236), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(237), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(238), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(239), Replacement:="I", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(240), Replacement:="D", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(241), Replacement:="N", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(242), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(243), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(244), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(245), Replacement:="O", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(246), Replacement:="OE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(248), Replacement:="OE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(249), Replacement:="U", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(250), Replacement:="U", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(251), Replacement:="U", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(252), Replacement:="UE", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(253), Replacement:="Y", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(254), Replacement:="P", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
rRange.Replace What:=Chr(255), Replacement:="Y", LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, MatchCase:=False
End Sub

Any guidnace you can offer is gratefully accepted.

Regards

Paul Hampson


"Norman Jones" wrote:

Hi Paul,

I used Chr(193) which worked for me.

As a suggestion, on the problematic system, verify the code, e.g.: copy
the
character of interest into A1 and in B1 enter = Code(A1) to return the
corresponding code number.


---
Regards,
Norman



"Paul hampson" wrote in message
...
Thanks Norman but I get the same results as before that is there is no
replacement of the characters

rRange.Replace What:=Chr(193), _
Replacement:="A", _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns

---
Regards,
Norman


I think it is either to do with windows or office set ups but I can't
see
what to change.