I have inherited a sheet where someone added an "*" to distinguish between 2
duplicate values. Example would be stamp #"M0001" for one person and when
offices combined there may have been 2 stamps with this number. Someone
added the "*" to the second entry. I am attempting to find the severity of
the problem by identifying duplicates. I attempted to use the replace and
change "*" to nothing. This caused all of the data to be replaced with
nothing.

How can I remove all of the "*" with out disturbing the rest of the data.
Also the stamp numbers vary in length and prefix, some are "M" others "P"
etc. about 4600 total stamps.

Thanks to all

Lomax