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How to remove special characters in a excel

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    How to remove special characters in a excel

    Hi

    I want to remove all the special characters i need only texts and numbers.

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    Re: How to remove special characters in a excel

    Hello

    I need to remove all the characters in a sheet except alphabets and numbers.

    Please do the needful..

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    Re: How to remove special characters in a excel

    Select the cells you want to purify and run this small macro:

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    Re: How to remove special characters in a excel

    Hi

    but it also removes spaces between the words

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    Re: How to remove special characters in a excel

    i want to remove the special characters alone..i need the spaces between the words

    Thanks

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    Re: How to remove special characters in a excel

    Here is a version that will not remove spaces:

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    Re: How to remove special characters in a excel

    Thank you...

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