Excel For Mac Find And Replace Special Characters

How to replace all after/before specific character or space in Excel?

I did create something, which works for removing special characters, except the double quotes ('). Also, I did not find a way to have the file saved as an EXE, that when clicked finds the Excel Workbook open with its name and executes this function.

For example you have a list of text strings as below screenshot shown, and now you need to replace all characters after the specific “b” with another text string in Excel. Any idea to solve it in Excel quickly? This article will introduce two easy solutions for you.

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Replace all after/before specific character or space with Find and Replace feature

This method will introduce the Find and Replace feature to easily replace all characters after or before specified one in Excel. Please do as follows:

1. Select the list you will replace all after/before the specific characters, and press the Ctrl + H keys simultaneously to open the Find and Replace dialog box.

Note: You can also open the Find and Replace dialog box by clicking Home > Find & Select > Replace.

2. In the Find and Replace dialog box, please do as follows：

(1) In the Find what box, please type b*;

Note: b is the specific character you will replace all characters after. To remove all before the specific character, please type *b into the Find what box. To replace all characters after (before) space, please type a space and * (or * and a space) into this box.

(2) In the Replace with box, please type the text string you will replace with.

(3) Click the Replace All button.

3. Now a dialog box will come out and show how many replacements it has made. Just click the OK button to close it. And then close the Find and Replace dialog box.

And now in our example you will see all characters after b has been replaced with the specified text in the selected cells. See screenshot:

Note: This method does not work if you want to replace all characters after/before wildcards (* and ?).

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No mater replacing all characters after/before a normal character (such as letter, number, etc.), or replacing all after/before special character (such as *, ?, etc.), Kutools for Excel can help you easily get it done in Excel.

1. Select the list of text strings you will replace all before/after the specific character, and click Kutools > Text > Split Cells.

2. In the opening Split Cells dialog box, please check the Split to Columns option, check the Other option and type the specific character (we type the asterisk * in our example) into below box, and click the Ok button. See screenshot:

In the second Split Cells dialog box please specify the first cell of destination range and click the OK button.

And then you will see the list of text strings are split into two columns. See screenshot:

3. Select the first column of two split columns, and click Kutools > Text > Add Text.

4. In the opening Add Text dialog box, type the text you will replace with into the Text box, check the After last character option, and click the Ok button. See screenshot:

And then you will see the specified text replace all characters after the specific character (asterisk in our case). See screenshot:

Note: To replace all before the specified character, please select the second column of both split column in Step 3, and check the Before first character option in Step 4. See screenshot:

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  Por favor, como exemplo - Tenho na célula 'b8' a seguinte informeção ( 1.00E-3 % 10) e preciso que fiquem apenas os valores significativos (1.00E-3) sem os espaços inicial, sem o caractere % e o espaço e o valor que se segue ( 10), porém ao utilizar a fórmula =SUBSTITUIR(SUBSTITUIR(SUBSTITUIR(B8;'.';',');' %*';');' *';') retorna apenas a substituição do ponto pela virgula. Sabe informar o que está errado, ou se tem alguma outra forma de resolver isso?

How to find and replace asterisk / question mark / tilde in Excel?

When you work with an Excel file, you want to find the cells which contain asterisk, question mark or tilde and replace the specific characters with other values. Most of you may consider directly entering the asterisk (*), question mark (?) or tilde (~) character into the Find text box and replace them. But in this way, you will get the wrong result. This article, I will talk about how to find and replace asterisk / question mark / tilde in Excel quickly and correctly.

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Find and replace asterisk / question mark / tilde in Excel

To find and replace these specific characters, you need to add a character tilde (~) before the asterisk, question mark or tilde in the Find what text box, please do with the following steps:

1. Select the range cells that you want to replace the specific characters.

2. Go to click Home > Find & Replace > Replace or you can press Ctrl + H shortcuts to open the Find and Replace dialog, see screenshot:

3. In the Find and Replace dialog box, enter~* into the Find what text box to find the cells which have the * character, and then type the value which you want to replace with in Replace with text box, see screenshot:

4. Then click Replace All button in the dialog, and all asterisks have been replaced with the value you want.

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5. At last, close the Find and Replace dialog box.

Note: If you need to replace the question mark or tilde characters, you just enter ~? or ~~ into the Find what text box.

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