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    Removing just cells with only SPACE (_) in them.

    I have a large set of data that I need to consolidate with a lot of blank cells, but they are not blank, they have a SPACE inserted. I can’t use find and replace because it will remove all the space in all the cells and I can’t use find and select “blanks” special characters because the cells are not blank… Thank you for your help in advance.

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    Re: Removing just cells with only SPACE (_) in them.

    I can’t use find and replace because it will remove all the space in all the cells
    Why not? In 2007, I have the option (in the Find and Replace dialog) of "match entire cell contents" which allows Excel to distinguish between a cell containing only a " " character and a space character between words in other cells. It seems unlikely that this options would be taken away in 2010.

    Does that work, or is there more to the problem?
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    Re: Removing just cells with only SPACE (_) in them.

    Thank you for the post back. I figured it out --- "match entire cell contents" --- wasn’t selected. Thank you for your help.

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