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    Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    The cells contain words with alphapets and numbers and also the . symbol. But many of them contain junk characters . i need to formula to ( able to remove all junk characters from cell. Please share the same

    example of data

    djhsjdh3536 garbage
    dsdswjdjkwe2 garbage
    dwsjdhwd


    Need the garbage removed from the cell and only letters, numbers and the dot symbol should remain

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    Your examples do not adequately show how your data is setup. There is no "." in any of your examples.
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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    i also have some cells example where the garbage value starts with [ and there are letters and numbers

    example

    hello [13bhne
    newguy [5363fdgh



    Output should be

    hello
    newguy

    please help remove the garbage hereaswell

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    Your examples do not adequately show how your data is setup. There is no "." in any of your examples
    Hi mcmahot, the . is a valid character . i have not included it in above examples.

    I just need to be able to eliminate everything except the 26 letter and 10 digits and the . symbol

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    A sample workbook is needed to provide further help then.

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    You can create workbook using the examples i provided .


    djhsjdh3536 garbage
    dsdswjdjkwe2 garbage

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    Quote Originally Posted by shadowknight View Post
    You can create workbook using the examples i provided .


    djhsjdh3536 garbage
    dsdswjdjkwe2 garbage
    You can also provide a sample workbook to your problem that adequately depicts your data. Everyone here works pro bono, but nobody is going to create and do your work for you.

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    mcmahobt , I really appreciate you trying to help me but I am really sorry I cant share restricted information on a public forum

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    Quote Originally Posted by shadowknight View Post
    mcmahobt , I really appreciate you trying to help me but I am really sorry I cant share restricted information on a public forum
    Desensitize the data and upload a sample document is a good workaround.

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    I havent asked for my work to be done , all i need is a simple formula to remove all garbage values( anything that is not a letter, number, or the . symbol) from a cell

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    You can see garbages below . This can be even characters from another language or some rubbish and gibberish . Just want them eliminated

    djhsjdh3536 ^*({#
    dsdswjdjkwe2 !^&%

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    Without VBA, this would be very hard to accomplish succinctly in one formula without actually seeing how your data is setup.

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    Re: Help required :removal of garbage characters from cell

    Try following the instructions here and see how it turns out:

    http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-q...os-script.html

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