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    Mass delete mailto: entries in cells,

    I have an accounts spreadsheet that I copy and paste customers names and addies into from the website back end sales information.

    I do not copy e-mail addresses.

    I have a mailto: with an e-mail address appear in the file in lots of places, it seems I delete it from some cells and it appears in others, my file is infested with the things now.

    I can delete one by one, but this would take me weeks any ideas of how I can ctrl a select all cells and mass delete these things.

    I am face with making a brand new accounts file which is a lot of work.

    Thanks in advance

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    Do you want to clear the cell contents or delete the cell?, if deleting the cell how should the data move? up/down/left/right? do you want to delete the entire row? is Mailto: the only thing in the cell? can you click the mailto like a hyperlink?
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    Hello Simon

    Only the mailto: not the contents.

    I can do it one by one, but there seems to be hundreds.

    I have just worked out a temp solution, and recorded a macro that copied the delete action one one cell and run this through my whole sheet, only problem is its stuffed a load of formatting, but thats small beer compared to deleting one by one.

    Could do with a better solution in future though,

    Thanks

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    Use excels Find/Replace, so click on EDIT, FIND in the find what box type your mailto: then click replace have nothing in it then click replace all!

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    Hello Simon

    Tried that, but its a hidden format and not an actual cell entry, that was my first point of call lol

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    Can you zip and post a mock sheet?

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