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Sub Macro6()
'
' Macro6 Macro
' Macro recorded 10/31/2005 by Don Guillett
'

'
Columns("H:H").Select
Selection.Replace What:="books", Replacement:="1", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
End Sub

cleaned up to this
Sub replaceallincolumn()
With Columns("H")
..Replace what:="books", replacement:=1
..Replace what:="papers", replacement:=2
End With
End Sub
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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"rachelreveley"
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H,

I need a macro that will allow me to do several find and replace
actions within a specific column. The column will have category
infromation selected by our customers from a drop down list such as
automotive, books etc. We need to then convert these to numbers so
automotive becomes 1, books becomes 2 etc.

Any ideas?


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