Find Or Replace Text For Mac Excel

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  • Use the REPLACE Function when you want to replace text based on it’s location, regardless of content. You may want to use Excel’s FIND Function or Excel’s SEARCH Function to determine the start location. You may also wish to use the LEN Function to count the number of characters to replace. Use the Substitute Function to find and replace.

The Excel SUBSTITUTE function can replace text by matching. Use the SUBSTITUTE function when you want to replace text based on its content, not position. Optionally, you can specify the instance of found text to replace (i.e. First instance, second instance, etc.). Below are the formulas used in the example shown above. Find and Replace Text with SUBSTITUTE formula The number of Columns are fixed, but the start of the range can occur on different Row numbers. What I would like to do is create a macro that will Find and Replace All the three different values (“-“, “STD.” and “1/16””) in Column A (“MARK”) with a new abbreviated mark, based on.

For some reason, Excel won't allow me to paste into the find or replace dialog. This is more than a little inconvenient. Am I missing something? Has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix or workaround?

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The usual things apply: OS version, Office version. How are you trying to paste? Please let us know the exact steps.

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What are the contents of the copy? What are you selecting when you hit cmd-c or cmd-v? What I am getting at is are you trying to copy a graphic into a text cell, or something strange like that.

I have also found out that in XL …

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Hello,

The usual things apply: OS version, Office version. How are you trying to paste? Please let us know the exact steps.

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Christian