How To Remove Special Characters In A Excel
Jan 10, 2014I want to remove all the special characters i need only texts and numbers.
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Excel 2003 :: How To Remove Characters To The Right Of Last Occurrence Of Special Character
Mar 30, 2011I have a column of text where I need to remove all the characters to the right of the last occurance of a special character.
I think a process like reading from right to left, look for the first occurance of the special character, and return the characters to the left of this position.
If I can determine the position of the last occurance of the special character, I could use the LEFT function.
The SEARCH function is close. It finds the position of the first occurance of text inside text but it reads from left to right. I need to read from right to left.
Another approach is to examine each character one by one from right to left. If the character is not the special character, delete it. When the character is the special character, delete it and stop the process.
There is no consistency in the text. The total lengths vary. The number of times the special character occurs in the text vary. The number of characters to the right or left of the last special character vary.
I much prefer not to have the solution be some VBA because I need to share it with others who are even less capable than I am. We are using Excel 2003.
To Validate Special Characters In An Excel
Feb 2, 2009I need to check whether a description of a certain product in my excel has any of
below special characters
! @ ' " ] [ } { | & $ # ^ ~ %
and also the description should not exceed more than 40 characters.
i tried using the "If" condition but it does not seem to check the same.
Excel 2013 :: Remove First 5 Characters From A Cell?
Mar 5, 2014I have attached a spread sheet with some code I recoded with macro recorder. I have been searching for some extra code to insert in the middle of the recorded code which will remove the first 5 characters from the active cell and past the result to the next page. I have seen a lot of relevant code but haven't been able to get any to work in my code.
[Code] .....
I am using Windows7 with Excel 2013.
Attached File : DeleteFirst5Char.xlsm
Excel 2013 :: Remove Characters Before / Between And After Certain Occurrences Of Quote
Jan 27, 2014I am using Microsoft 2013 and am looking for 4 formulas in order to split 1 cell in to 4 (across same row). Number of characters varies between each instance of """.
I would like the formulas to start in column B-D (data in A)
I am looking at formulas based on specific instances of a quote mark in cell from data in column A
Formula 1 - Return with characters up to and including the 5th instance of """
Formula 2 - Return with characters after 5th """ and up to and including 6th """
Formula 3 - Return with characters after 6th """ and up to and including 7th """
Formula 4 - Return with characters after the 7th instance of """
Example below...
Cell A1
xxyy","aabb","ee,ff,""gghh"hh,"llmm,mmnbijp"oossww"
Desired results
Cell B1 - Formula 1
xxyy","aabb","ee,ff,"
Cell C1 - Formula 2
"gghh"
Cell D1 - Formula 3
hh,"
Cell E1 - Formula 4
mmnbijp"oossww"
Excel 2007 :: How To Remove Letter And Leave Numbers And Chinese Characters
Mar 19, 2013I need a formula to use on MS Excel 2007 to remove the English letters from a cell A1 and return only the numbers(if any) & Chinese characters to B1.
Please refer to the able below.
Example:
A
B
1
so l首先欢迎大家收听我们的科学与烹饪系列
首先欢迎大家收听我们的科学与烹饪系列
2
讲座的最后一次报告 有点难过这是最后一次了
讲座的最后一次报告 有点难过这是最后一次了
[Code]...
Remove Non-alpha Characters From Alphanumerics With Option To Remove Numbers
Aug 8, 2009I have found a very useful UDF for removing non-alpha characters from strings. (See below, Credit for posting to Stanley D Grom - Ozgrid post Removing Non-alpha Characters From Text).
Option Explicit
Private Function RemoveCharacters(InString As String) As String
Dim intLoopCounter As Integer
Dim intStringLength As Integer
Dim intASCIIVal As Integer
intStringLength = Len(InString)
InString = LCase(InString)
For intLoopCounter = 1 To intStringLength
intASCIIVal = Asc(Mid(InString, intLoopCounter, 1))
If intASCIIVal >= 97 And intASCIIVal <= 122 Then
RemoveCharacters = RemoveCharacters + Mid(InString, intLoopCounter, 1)
End If
Next intLoopCounter
End Function
Two requests:
1. Could the UDF be modified such that any part of a string contained within brackets is also removed (e.g. "NLGA High Street (West-Enfield), EN6" becomes "nlgahighstreeten")?
2. Can an argument be added to the format of the UDF, such that numbers (0 to 9) are either included or excluded (e.g. RemoveCharacters(A1,1) where the argument 1 would include any numbers (0 to 9), so "NLGA2003 High Street (West-Enfield), EN6" becomes "nlga2003highstreeten6")? blankor 0would exclude these numbers, i.e. would return "nlgahighstreeten"
Special Characters In-Between Text
Dec 28, 2012How do I add special characters in-between text? I know how to include a registered sign by using =CHAR(174) but what I do not know is how to include text before and after the sign itself.
ie timeware *registered sign* community
Validation (special Characters)
Jun 2, 2009 Is there a way to check a special character in textbox?
For example if type "TWO*" then i press a button it must raise an error.
Concatenating Special Characters
Sep 10, 2009my requirement is to create db2 query with the existing excel sheet data.
Cells in the excel sheet contains special characters like { ) , ( , , ; , , , _ , ... }
These cells has to be merged, is there any function in excel to do that?
Concatenate function is not working..! getting data error
Special Characters In Web Form
Aug 10, 2007I need to fill out a web form and have been doing so like this:
With hDoc.forms(0)
.NameOfInputBoxWithinTheForm.Value = "AAC"
.NameOfInputBoxWithinTheForm.Value = "1/1/7"
.Search.Click
End With
I have recently run into forms where the name/id of the input element contains special characters. Like Name#OfInputBoxWithin$TheForm$1. which VBA wont allow me to use in the code above since they are type def characters.
How To Eliminate Special Characters From Text
Feb 24, 2007In order to compare strings I have to remove a special character from imported text.
It is character F008 from Unicode(hex).
This charcter is not on my keyboard.
I find it under Insert - Symbol but I can't copy and paste it to the find/replace window.
how can I key in this character so that I can use it for find and replace?
Formula For Finding Special Characters
May 8, 2009I was hoping someone could help me out. I've been trying to put together a formula to find special characters with no luck.
Characters Im looking for are:
Conditional Formatting With Special Characters
Aug 24, 2009What i need is the following: In cell B1: if A1 is greater than 08:00am but less than 14:00pm than B1 should have a tick which is green, if cell A1 is greater than 14:00pm than B1 should have a cross which is red...
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Oct 14, 2009I 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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Dec 3, 2013I am trying to extract text from stings that appear in the following format XXX-XXX-XXX and XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.
I have figured out how to extract the first and second sets of data, what I am stuck on is getting the third and (if present) fourth sections.
Replace Special Characters With Space
Jul 8, 2014I 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
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The macro should when I select any particular column... not restricted to column A
Retaining Formatting And Special Characters
Sep 9, 2007I have created a multiple choice quiz maker that randomizes the questions and responses. This means that the quiz questions/responses must be copied and pasted each time a new quiz is generated. But in doing so, Excel loses formatting (such as super and sub scripting) and some special characters (like pi, alpha, the degree symbol).
Is there a way to get such things to copy properly from cell to cell, sheet to sheet, using Excel?
Some Cells Won't Acknowledge Special Characters
May 31, 2006I am using Excel 2002 SP3. I have a multiple worksheet workbook and am using links between some cells so as to keep the updating down to a minimum. Typically I can enter [code]=' Storage '!E70[code] to transfer the contents of one cell in the ' Storage ' worksheet to the cell I want the data in and I get the value of that worksheet/cell. But sometimes all I get is the data I entered: ie ='Storage '!E70. Is there some for cell format problem that prevents this from happening?
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May 17, 2007I have data in column A. The data contains a name, an underscore and initial/s. For example: rebecca_rt, john_j, etc... I'm trying to pull only the characters to the right of the underscore. I played around with the below formula that I found under a similar question thread. But, it doesn't quite work. As it is now, it returns ecca_rt when I just want rt. I'm sure this is probably really close =IF(ISERROR( FIND("_",A1)),A1,RIGHT(A1,FIND("_",A1)-1))
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Jan 15, 2008Working 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
Replacing Special Characters When Importing Text
Jun 18, 2009I have inherited a spreadsheet that will prompt the user for a text file to import and it will split each line into different cells based on column widths. The problem is that one field can contain non-printable characters that are causing the macro to split the data into 2 lines.
I think one of the special characters is a new paragraph but there could be others.
I need help with replacing these special characters with a space prior to spliting the line into an array.
Highlighting Duplicates Ignoring Special Characters?
Dec 12, 2011I have conditional formatting set to hilight duplicates, but I a, wonder if there is a way to exclude special characters (in this case specifically dashes).
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May 26, 2009i have data which has lots of these hyphen "-" how can i get rid of them,
for example -Eq Cash-
i need the result to be
Eq Cash
Also i have lots of front spaces in my data, how can i get rid of those? so for example
Test (there is 2 spaces before T)
Workaround For Special Characters In Named Range Names
Mar 20, 2008I am aware that special characters such as -,(,),[,] are not permitted in named ranges (for lists), but is there a workaround for this? I have a lot of dependent lists that need to access names that contain either a - or () or both. I could simply remove the -'s or ()'s using find/replace, but they are required, as they're part of the name. I am aware of this method http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html#Illegal but I have a lot of dependent lists across a sheet, and a VLOOKUP isn't going to work. If there isn't a workaround, are there any allowed characters I could use to replace the -'s and ()'s?
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Oct 9, 2009I have sentences which contains special characters (mentioned below) in a single column. I need to remove all special characters other than space. Could anyone help me on this...
!@#$%^&*()-_=+{}[]|~`?/,:;"
Trim Special Characters In Cell To Be To Split Data Into Columns?
Apr 9, 2014This formula I want to apply it in another workbook. It split in different columns the content of a cell.
The formula is below:
[Code] .....
In cell A2 I have the following data:
|516582-001-99|414816-001-99|414816-003-99|516582-001-99|
If I apply the formula above in cells B2 to E2 it returns a blank cells. But if I delete the first "|" sign in the left side manually the formula works perfectly by splitting the cell into columns from B2 to E2. The issue here is that I have more than 300,000 records. Just imagine the amount of time invested in just deleting the first "|" at the left side.
I need a variation of the formula above that in first place delete the first "|" at the left side and after that continue with the proper work of the formula.
Excel 2010 :: Clear Chevron Characters And Characters Inside Chevrons
Jan 17, 2012Is there an Excel formula to remove the spacebar + characters in red, as shown below? I need to be left with only the last name, first name and the semicolon.
Mouse, Mickey ;
Microsoft Outlook has changed the way that email addresses from the global addressbook copy and paste (from version 2003 to version 2010).
Remove Certain Characters From A Row
Jun 5, 2008let's say row 2 has data that looks like
apple (kg), apple (g), orange (kg), orange (g)
it is possible to remove the (kg) and (g) tags so that it'll become
apple, apple, orange, orange
using VB code?
Remove Characters
Apr 27, 2006May I know how to remove character like
1) full stop
2) spacing
3) Dash
4) Hyphen
5) Left and Right Slash
For example:-
016-2733(LS-800E)
MS12-FS4/2M
1/4"GTR
Output:
0162733LS800E
MS12FS42m
14GTR