Find And Replace Blank Characters
Aug 28, 2009
I download several sets of data from an internet site. The only way I can do this is to copy and paste into Excel. The problem is, that all of the cells with numbers in them show up as text, and when I press F2, I find that there is a blank space at the end of each number.
Find and replace, searching for a blank space does not work - Excel "cannot find any data to replace". That function does work on cells in which I have created my own space at the end of a number, but not on these numbers. That leads me to believe that that "blank space" is actually some other invisible character that I need to be searching for. I've attached a bit of my data - maybe somebody else can identify my phantom character.
To get around this, I have been using the formula =(left(A1,len(A1)-1), and that works, it's just that it is a pain to create another table of 20-some columns with this formula, then copy those to values, then for each column convert text to columns to change the text to values, then search and replace for #value! where the original cells were blank.
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Jul 2, 2013
I recently became owner of a spreadsheet with some issues, and I am trying to make it useful. Each row has a URL of a blog post, and I want to extract the date from it (which is present in each URL) while getting rid of the rest of the URL. I was able to get rid of everything up to the year (which comes first), but then the URL continues, for example, 2013/05/16/the-rest-of-the-url/ and I would like to just have 2013/05/16 remain.
I am trying to use find and replace with the find box reading 2013/??/??/*/ and replacing it with 2013/??/?? which effectively erases everything else in the url, but leaves ?? instead of the numbers. Is there any way to have it so that it keeps whatever was in the original box?
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Jan 31, 2010
I have some records that include greek addresses. The greek alphabet contains letters that are common to the english one (A,B,E,Z,H,I,K,M,N,O,P,T,Y,X) and records with mixed characters will cause me problem. What can I do to find and replace any of those letters with the greek version of the letter.
example:
for a record:
T..5123 (this is the Greek abbreviation for P.O.BOX 5123)
I'm looking for a function to replace the first letter T (wether is Greek or English) with the Greek version of it
example 2:
KYMH 6 (kimis is the street, 6 the number)
I should replace English (first four ) letters with the Greek version...
example 3:
BAPITOY 14 (valaoritou is the street, 14 the number) ...........
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Oct 14, 2009
I need help with a formula (no VBA) that will find all the semi-colons ";" and pound signs "#" in a cell and replace them with this "<br> - ".
Example of Cell A1: ;#Red;#Green;#Blue;#
I started with this:
=REPLACE(MultChoice,SEARCH(";#",MultChoice),1,"<br> - ")
but it only replaces the first character.
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Sep 28, 2013
I basically want to find and replace certain characters in a formula, but the formula is quite intricate so I will give some background to the problem first:
I have a complex spread sheet which is used to check if a data array matches another data array (both data arrays are different sizes). One array has a set of parameters for a variable and the other array has the variables and the actual values for each variable. I have a section with the following formulas to check if the actual value (C121&D121) matches the parameters ($A$9:$A$108, $B$9:$B$108) & ($C$9:$C$108, $D$9:$D$108)
I have the following formula in cell AB121:
=(C121=INDEX($B$9:$B$108,ROW(101:101)-INT(ROW(100:100)/$D$1)*$D$1))
In cell AC121:
=(D121=INDEX($D$9:$D$108,ROW(101:101)-INT(ROW(100:100)/$D$1)*$D$1))
And have similar formulas from AD121 to AY121. I mention this to point out that excel regards this as an inconsistent formula, I haven't copied and pasted it over, I have had to re-enter it in each cell adjusting the parameter sections.
The problem I have is that currently this is set up to check through a data set and wrap around every 100 rows ('100' Entered in $D$1) but I want to adjust the formula when there is a different amount of rows to check. So basically the only way I can think to be able to do this is to have a formula or something in VBA (which I have very low level experience with) to be able to go into the formula and change certain characters within the formula. For example, if I wanted to check 95 rows instead of 100, it would need to have 95 in $D$1, which I enter in manually, but then how to go in and replace (101:101)-INT(ROW(100:100) with (96:96)-INT(ROW(95:95) in 2 sections in the 1 formula then do the same with the inconsistent formula from AC121:AY121?
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Dec 29, 2009
I have about 40,000 lines in Column A that have text like so...
13HMPS32TRE600001OP000000601
13L9KUPSOTE600001OP000000601
I need a formula to change all TR and OT to characters QT. I did a find and replace but its changing other columns of text that I don't need changed.
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Aug 11, 2014
I have list of email ids and some of which contains accented characters.I need to replace these accented characters with regular character.
Example:
rian.pieda@intt.com.cn
ario.sancez@acca.com
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Jul 18, 2014
i'm looking for macro for find and replace characters in a locked sheet, if a cell contains for example Monday (First day of week)
I want with a command or macro to change the (First day of week) in (Top of the Week) like this Monday (Top of the Week)
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Oct 28, 2009
I have a row of 2900 single letter (middle initals) however 222 users have no middle inital. this is a password scheme and need 7 digits, without the middle inital i only have 6. so I want to replace all 222 cell that are blank with a dash can this be done without doing each by hand?
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Aug 28, 2012
I have a listing with Middle Initials in column D. D also contains dates and Names. I want to remove the Middle Initials only. I need to do this without moving around cells. So a Find:="A", Replacement:="" type of situation. Right now I have 26 two line entries to take care of this, but I know it has to be easier and use less lines. (Trying to consolidate code for a better look).
Here is some of what I have (that works, but is long):
Code:
'
' Replace Middle Initial from Prod Sheet
'
Cells.Replace What:="A", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
[Code]...
I thought that I might be able to do something like this, but I can't get it to work.
Code:
Dim Alpha as Variant
Alpha = Array("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z")
For ABet = 1 to Cells(Rows.Count, "D").End(xlUP).Row
If Range(ABet) = Alpha Then Range(ABet) = ""
Next ABet
' or I thought maybe this would work.
Cells.Replace What:=("A", "L", "R", "M") Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _ :=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
' or I thought maybe this would work with the variables.
If Range("B" & ABet) = Alpha Then Range("A" & ABet) = "" None of them worked though.
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Mar 27, 2007
I have two sheets in my workbook: One containing names with French and other European characters, the other containing a list of ISO entities for these characters, like these:
#224
#225
#226
#227
#228
#229
#230
I need to replace these characters in Sheet 1 with the equivalent ISO entity from Sheet2 and print the value into the same cell in Sheet1.
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Feb 5, 2009
This problem has come up fairly frequently lately, and I'm not sure how to fix it, or if this is by design...but in Excel 2003 I can't seem to do a "Find and Replace" based on the value of a cell. I can do a find, based on cell value, but the moment I change to the replace tab, the "values" and "comments" are missing from the "look in" dropdown.
I've only noticed this when I'm trying to replace on a filtered list, so I'm not sure if that is part of the issue.
Perhaps an alternative way of arriving at the same goal. Basically I have a worksheet with a number of filtered columns. They are filtered just right, using custom filtering, and so I do not want to undo the filters. In some columns I have formulas that are returning #VALUE! errors. I'd like to replace all of these cells with NA.
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Nov 17, 2008
The formula below calculates appropriately, however, if any of the cells (E12,E14, E21, E22, E28, E29) are blank, it returns a #VALUE! error. I would like the cell to remain blank. How can I do this? The formula is listed below.
=(SUM(E34-E6)-(SUM((E12)+E14)-(SUM((E21)+E22)-(SUM(E28)+E29))))
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Feb 5, 2014
[Code] .....
Trying to repeat a 550 or so character statement with a find/replace however I am getting type mismatch errors. When I use a smaller message in the "replace" it works.
I need it to post a message exactly as long as what I have in there. How do I get it to work?
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Apr 20, 2006
Need assistance with the code for catching errors when using the find / replace function in excel? In particular, I am trying to write code to break to an error message when the value or string searched for isn't found in the find / replace. At the minute I have just copied the standard code using a macro and all this does is return a message box saying X entries replaced.
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Feb 11, 2009
Replace characters in a string. I have this macro:
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Dec 10, 2011
A range of cells contain characters that i want to replace with spaces. The problem is that the length of the string differs and also the characters differ.
For example, below a list of cell values:
GR
GRKR
GRKRKR
GRKRK1
GRON
GRONBL
As a result for the first value i want 2 spaces, for the second one 4 spaces etc.
Is it possible to do this with a formula? I don't want to use VBA for this if possible...
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Nov 28, 2006
I'm trying to do a quick find and replace across a range of cells to remove Chr(10) and Chr(13) characters. For some strange reason, some of the cells are being good and duly allow the removal of said characters and some are not - they stubbornly refuse to remove with no error message. The ones that are not allow removal if I copy the individual cell to a new sheet.
Sub removeCharNew()
'Dim x As Integer
Cells(1, 1).Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
Cells.Replace Chr(10), ""
Cells.Replace Chr(13), ""
End Sub
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Oct 4, 2007
Is it possible to display a dialog box or msgbox that doesnt have an OK button ?
i.e I want a message that comes up on the screen that says "Links Updating...Please Wait" which then automatically changes to "Links Sucessfully Updated" on completion...I dont want the macro to be interrupted by the msgbox/dialog...
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Mar 18, 2009
I am trying to create a macro where it finds a a certain word in a column for example C. What i want it to do is find anything that says FWD_EUR and then replace that cell (e.g C2) with CASH_EUR_FWD and after it has done that it replaces the adjacent cell (e.g. D2) with EUR_FWD. I then want this to do the same with FWD_USD to CASH_USD_FWD and adjacent cell to USD_FWD.
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Oct 14, 2009
I have a worksheet that I produced from optical character recognition, and there are a lot of funky characters that I need to get rid of. One is a line break or carraige return (I assume it's the same character that I could insert by entering ALT+ENTER). How do I search for this special character to replace it? How do I identify what that invisible character is?
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Aug 15, 2013
I have very large text data which contains accented characters (E.g., "ÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöùúûüýÿˆµ" etc.) within words.
Since I have several data sheets, some of which having 500000+ rows, Find and Replace and similar options are not viable.
I wish to replace each of these characters with regular English characters in all sheets. If that is difficult, these must at least be removed from the whole text. note that I need to preserve regular characters that are commonly used, particularly the hyphen (-) and underscore (_).
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Jul 8, 2014
I am looking a macro which should perform below activities
I have a lists of suppliers which needs to cleansed....
1.replace all the special characters with a space
2.replace Corporation with Corp
Incorporation with Inc
Limited with Ltd
Limited partnership/ltd partnership with LP
Company with Co
ASSC/ASSOC with ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATES (SEARCH SUPPLIER IN GOOGLE FOR THE CORRECT ONE)
MGNT with MANAGEMENT
SVCS with SERVICES
DEPT with DEPARTMENT
Unltd with UNLIMITED
Ctr with CENTER
UNIV with UNIVERSITY
3. Remove any text, Special characters and numbers after INC,CO, LTD, CORP,LLP, LLC
The macro should when I select any particular column... not restricted to column A
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Nov 29, 2009
I have been trying to do the following but have not been successful. thanks in advance for helping!
- i have lots of text strings on one worksheet
- some text strings have <randomstring>, some even have multiple instances of <randomstring>, but others don't have a <randomstring> at all
- what i want is remove anything within "<" and ">", including the operators "<" and ">"
i have done this so far, with simple text functions, have each of the following lines in separate columns (text string column is "C"): .....
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Sep 9, 2013
I have a long list of items in one column, with parameters that are all split by an underscore.
However, in some instances, some of the text that is separated by an underscore needs to be joined together.
So for instance I'll have;
This_is_a_very_good_thing
This_is_a_perfect_thing
Where I want the result to be that "good_thing" becomes "good-thing" and "perfect_thing" becomes "perfect-thing".
How can I get this done with a Macro, instead of constantly doing a Vlookup to change this instances.
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Sep 21, 2007
I have a conversion issue. I have a sheet that is In Japanese (Shift-JIS) and some characters are replaced by boxes (squares), I have tried to record a macro to combat this, ie copy the symbols (squares) and replacing the squares with a corresponding letter. It works when I record the macro, but when I run the macro again it replaces everything with the letter I choose.
Sub replacing()
Columns("A:A").Select
Selection.Replace What:="??", Replacement:="RR", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
End Sub
It seems that the macro is not able to record the squares and replace them with R. see attached xlsheet.
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Jan 15, 2008
Working on a macro to replace a list of about 20 specific "Special" Characters in excel, and have ran into 6 that will not work.. Following are the characters: ā, č, ć, ř, ş, ż
ActiveSheet.Select
Selection.Replace What:="", Replacement:="a", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
Selection.Replace What:="", Replacement:="a", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
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Mar 15, 2008
QUESTION: How do I check to see if a cell contains either "" or "/" and if it does then replace it with "-"? THE REASON: I have a form which needs to be saved in a particular directory with the name "Form 1 - client name - matter name". To do this I have put =("G:UsersCComplianceFile OpeningForm 1 - "&B7&" - "&D42) in Cell A1 and then in VBA added the following macro to a button which saves the file
ThisFile = Range("A1").Value
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=ThisFile
This works ok BUT, if the user puts "/" or "" in either B7 or D42, it won't save and throws up an error because you can't use those signs when saving a file.
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Oct 26, 2009
Range B3:B1000 is text strings. Column C2:C50 is a list of words that I would like to "Find" in Column B and replace with it's lowercase values unless they start off the string.
Example
Find all occurences of And or AND and replace with and
Find all occurences of With or WITH and replace with with.
Find all occurences of Or or OR and replace with or
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Dec 15, 2009
I have a customer data file in which some cells have been completed with x's and I need to replace any cell that contains x's with a blank.
I can easily do this when the cell contains a single x by using find and replace within the macro, but some customers have completed fields with xx or xxx or xxxx and so on - these x's may be in upper or lower case.
I can't just replace all instances of x (or X) with blank on partial cells as there will be company names or address details that will contain an x.
What I need is a way to identify cells that contain ONLY x character(s): so "x" would be replaced with blank as would "xx", "xxx" etc., but "XYZ Limited", "LOXX & Co." or "Essex" need to be left as is.
I can't even think where to begin on this. Anyone got any bright ideas or can point me in the right direction?
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