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Mystery ALT key character illudes all methods of extraction! HELP!
Hi, I am in need of help with something I have never encountered before i Excel. At work, I have an extremely long (over 20,000+) list in excel. The problem is that there is sporadic and unpredicatable places in th cells that have a BLANK BOX character much like : □ . Except HOWEVER, it is slightly TALLER, thinner box. I can't copy and paste it here fo you to see, becuase it won't transfer! HERE- ' ' The mysteries BOX is between the 'quotes'. Its just half line o empty space and it cannot be seen. I need to be able to COPY and paste that empty box (looks like □ expect taller and thinner and unable to replicate in Word, Excel, o Notepad) Basically there are thousands of these annoying little thing in the thousands of cells that I have in this one excel sheet. It woul be MUCH more efficent use of time if I could SEARCH for the Empy Box an replace it with Blank characters to get rid of /erase the annoyin boxes. But I am unable to do [search/replace] that in Excel (or word o notepad for that matter) becuase I CANNOT copy and paste the characte into any fields, or anywhere! I have already searched on the interne about this matter but to no avail, I have went through all of excel related help docutments but still no use. There must be a clever way t do this! I have tried using the MS CHaracter Map but the boxes are stil not exactly like the one I have in excel, so I cannot use it. I hav tried everyone of the alt key characters from 1 to 256 and none of the match the one I have in excel, can anyone please help! Thanks, B -- bxc273 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- bxc2739's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=3253 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=52321 |
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Mystery ALT key character illudes all methods of extraction! HELP!
You could try this:
Sub FindReplace() Dim row As Integer Dim myCell As Range Set myCell = Application.InputBox( _ prompt:="Select a cell which has the contents you want to remove", Type:=8) For row = 1 To Worksheets(1).UsedRange.Rows.Count If Worksheets(1).Range("A" & row).Value = myCell.Value Then Worksheets(1).Range("A" & row).Delete Shift:=xlShiftUp End If Next row Set myCell = Nothing End Sub |
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