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Preserving wildcard in Find and Replace

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    Preserving wildcard in Find and Replace

    Trying to convert a column of format 123-45-67.8 to 123°45"67.8'
    I can find *-*-* fine but trying to replace with *°*"*' overwrites my original data with *°*"*' instead of preserving the wildcard values.

    Is there a way to do this with Regular Expressions or a 3rd party utility or am I stuck writing a VBA function to convert the string (which will lead me to my next question- where to start there?)

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    Assuming that Column A contains your data, enter the following formula in B1 and copy down:

    =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","°",1),"-","""")&"'"

    Then, select Column B > Edit > Copy > Edit > Paste Special > Values > OK.

    Hope this helps!

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