Typo patrol...........should be 0010(not 0100) but if a Tab
character.........................

Try this formula for Tab CHAR(9)

=substitute(a1,char(9)," ")

A handy add-in to have is Chip Pearson's CELLVIEW.XLA

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

To get a listing of codes for characters enter in A1 of a new sheet

=CHAR(ROW())

Drag/copy down 256 rows.


Gord

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:13:02 -0500, "Some Dude" wrote:

It's not carriage return. Know were I might find a table of all the other
symbols?

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
.. .
The little boxes could be carriage returns.

To get rid of then do an EditReplace

What: ALT + 0100(from the numpad, not the regular keys)

With: space or nothing

Replace all.

If your boss set his cells to "wrap text" he would not see the little
boxes.

If you want to see them, uncheck "wrap text"


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:42:52 -0500, "Some Dude" wrote:

I imported some data from one an excel file on one of our company web
sites.
When I look at it everything looks fine. When my boss looks at it he sees
characters shaped like little boxes where I see blank spaces. I copied the
blank spaces and pasted them into Word and I can see the arrows you'd see
for tabs in a Word document if you selected View Paragraph marks.
How can I replace these with blank space in the Excel file?
Why can my boss see them in excel but I can't?