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    Delete special characters in 1 column but in multiple rows

    Hi. We have a problem with one of our spreadsheet, maybe someone can give us idea how to do it. We have this special characters that we wanted to delete which is located in 1 column in multiple rows but we couldn't do it using the regular excel. We heard that vba will be able to do it but we don't know that much of macro. Is that possible? Example of special characters that we wanted to delete are "^", "*", "&", "-", etc. Is it possible using macro and how? Hope you can help us. Thanks.

    Example of 1 column in multiple rows:
    A1: 1234 Love^ St
    A2: 1111 Rose St^
    A3: 1222 Hold^ Street*

    Those are street addresses in 1 column but multiple rows like hundreds of rows and they have those "^" & "*" special characters that we want to delete. Hope you can help us. Thanks.

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    Re: Delete special characters in 1 column but in multiple rows

    you can use Excel's default features/

    From the Edit menu you can select Replace (or CTRL+H) and then enter each symbol (one at a time) in the Find What field, leave the Replace With field blank and hit Replace All.

    If the symbol is an *, ? or other wildcard character, try preceding it with a tilde (~) (top left of conventional keyboard). e.g. to replace *, use ~*
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    Re: Delete special characters in 1 column but in multiple rows

    Thanks NVBC for your advice. However, I tried that trick before I post it here and the result will be complete deletion of the rows with that "^" character. Also, I have 1000s of rows to lookup and doing one at a time is not a good idea as I will spend a lot of time doing it. I know that macro can do it and so I am hoping that someone can offer their time to help solve this problem. Thanks.

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