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How can I search for *?
I have a large imported list of part numbers. The problem is that some of the part numbers contain an asterisk (*) as part of the part number. This causes some obvious problems when doung lookups. I'd like to do a search/replace to replace all asterisks with some other non-wild-card symbol. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks. ---Glenn -- gjcase ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gjcase's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26061 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=512793 |
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How can I search for *?
Using Edit, Replace search for ~*
-- Jim "gjcase" wrote in message ... | | I have a large imported list of part numbers. The problem is that some | of the part numbers contain an asterisk (*) as part of the part number. | This causes some obvious problems when doung lookups. I'd like to do a | search/replace to replace all asterisks with some other non-wild-card | symbol. | | Can anyone tell me how to do this? | | Thanks. | | ---Glenn | | | -- | gjcase | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | gjcase's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26061 | View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=512793 | |
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How can I search for *?
~*
~? and ~~ if you're doing Edit|find In =vlookup(): =VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"), Sheet2!$A:$B,2,FALSE) Is one way to handle both the wild cards and escape character. gjcase wrote: I have a large imported list of part numbers. The problem is that some of the part numbers contain an asterisk (*) as part of the part number. This causes some obvious problems when doung lookups. I'd like to do a search/replace to replace all asterisks with some other non-wild-card symbol. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks. ---Glenn -- gjcase ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gjcase's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26061 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=512793 -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks, that worked great. ---Glenn -- gjcase ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gjcase's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26061 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=512793 |
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