How to quickly find and replace character with superscript in Excel?

In Excel, we can quickly replace a specific value with another one by applying Find and Replace function, but have you ever suffer with a problem that to find a specific character in specific text string and the replace it as superscript format, such as find YL3 and then replace with YL3 as below screenshot shown. Of course, you can find and replace them one by one, but this method cost too much time. If there are any tricks can quickly replace with superscript in Excel? Follow this article, you will get the answer.

Find and replace with superscript by Find and Replace function

Find and replace with superscript by VBA

Find and replace with superscript by Find and Replace function

Actually, you can use Find and Replace to find the text and then replace with superscript format.

1. Select the range you want to find and replace work for, and press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog.

2. In the Find and Replace dialog, click Replace tab, and then enter the text you want to find into the Find what textbox. See screenshot:

3. Then go to Replace with textbox, enter the text you want to replace with, take notice, hold Alt key and then press 0179 keys on the Number board to enter the superscript number 3. See screenshot:

4. Click Replace All. And a dialog pops out to remind you how many replacements have been done. See screenshot:

Tip: But with this method, you only can superscript number 2 by pressing 0178, and 3 by 0179.

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Find and replace with superscript by VBA

With Find and Replace function, only can replace the number with superscript. If you want to replace letter with superscript as below screenshot shown, you can apply VBA code to solve it.

1. Press Alt + F11 keys to open Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste below VBA code to the script.

VBA: Find and replace with superscript format

Sub DoConvert()
'UpdatebyExtendoffice20160705
    Dim xRg As Range
    Dim xTxt As String
    Dim xCell As Range
    On Error Resume Next
    If ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Count > 1 Then
      xTxt = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.AddressLocal
    Else
      xTxt = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.AddressLocal
    End If
    Set xRg = Application.InputBox("Select a range:", "Kutools for Excel", xTxt, , , , , 8)
    If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
    For Each xCell In xRg
        If xCell.Value = "YL3" Then
            xCell.Characters(1, 1).Font.Superscript = True
        End If
    Next
End Sub

3. Press F5 key to run the code, and a dialog pops out to remind you select a range. See screenshot:

4. Click OK, the specific character in specific string has been converted to be superscript format in the selection. See screenshot:

Tip: in the code, “YL3” is the string you want to find from, and (1, 1) indicates to convert first 1 character of the string, if you want to convert first two character, you can change it as (1, 2), if you want to convert 1 character from second character of the string, you can change it as (2, 1).