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    Remove special characters

    Hi,

    I need your help to remove the DOT & COLON (Special Charecters) in "0015.6053:BC2C"

    Regards,
    Humac Deep
    Last edited by pike; 01-14-2012 at 04:07 PM. Reason: characters

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    Re: Need to remove special charecters

    Did you try a normal Find -> Replace? Find . and replace with nothing (do not type anything in the replace box).
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    Re: Need to remove special charecters

    Hi Arlette,

    Yes, I have tried it. The data is in 1500 rows and few of them changed to 1.32E+145.

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    Re: Need to remove special charecters

    Hi Humac

    Must exists a shorter formula, but this works for me.

    =SUM((MID(0&A1;LARGE(IF(ISNUMBER(MID(0&A1;ROW($1:$256);1)*1);ROW($1:$256);1);ROW($1:$256));1)*1)*10^(ROW($1:$256)-1))

    yOUR DATA IN a1.

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    Re: Need to remove special charecters

    thats a problem! try =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,":",""),",","") instead then copy paste back as special values to remove the formula
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    Array formula(CSE)!

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    Re: Need to remove special charecters

    Hello,

    Fotis - I have tried and it doesn't work for me.

    Martin - Thanks for your formula it works..

    Regards,
    Humac

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