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    Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Hello everybody
    I have some data in column A
    for example
    I have this name "ســـــــــــالــــم" I need this name to be like that "سالم"

    The first name is made by convert keyboard to Arabic input and typing Shift + J when typing Arabic
    I need to get rid of all these characters made by Shift + J whch may be different in size : ـ ــ ـــ ــــ ـــــ ــــــ ـــــــ ـــــــــ

    I have a lot of data in Column A which is needed to be fixed properly
    Hope it's clear

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Can you please use the Code() function in excel cell and let us know the code number of that text?

    =CODE("EnterThat-TextHere")


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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Thanks for quick reply
    The code is 220

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Try this...

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Can't find project or library
    chr

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    I solved that error by removing missing reference
    The problem now is that the code doesn't change anything at all.That's weird

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Check missing references

    Tools > References in the Visual Basic Environment Window.

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Quote Originally Posted by :) Sixthsense :) View Post
    Check missing references

    Tools > References in the Visual Basic Environment Window.
    I solved that part. The problem now is that nothing changed

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    I had to loop
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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    use this formulathe name is in cell a1)
    =SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(220),"")

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Thanks Mr. Salim Hasbia for your great formula ..
    Simple and easy
    But I still need to do that task by code and at the same time try to avoid loops

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    If Substitue function is working then
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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Quote Originally Posted by YasserKhalil View Post
    The problem now is that nothing changed
    Because I used Selection as range. Have you selected the range before running the code?

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    Otherwise replace the Selection property with your range like the below and check

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Mr. Jindon
    That's perfect thanks a lot
    Mr. Sixthsense
    Thanks a lot for offering help. you helped me a lot with this topic.
    As for last code didn't affect the range . I don't know why

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    Re: Remove unwanted character from range of cells

    Quote Originally Posted by YasserKhalil View Post
    As for last code didn't affect the range . I don't know why
    May be your range have formula resulting values.

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