Thanks Dave! That's what I needed.

John

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> Any chance these strings are in one column?
>
> If yes, you could apply Data|Filter|autofilter to that column.
> Filter using Custom
> contains type=simple
>
> and then do your edit|replace.
>
> (heck, with just a few columns, it wouldn't be too difficult to do a few times)