How to remove all instances of a character in Excel range?
Have you ever tried to remove all instance of a character in a range or the whole sheet in Excel? Do you still remove this specific character one by one manually? In this tutorial, I introduce some tricks on quickly removing all instances of a specific character in Excel.
Remove all instance of a character with Find and Replace
Remove all instance of a character with Remove Characters
Remove all instance of a character with Find and Replace
In Excel, the Find and Replace function can quickly find a character and replace it with blank or other contents in a selection or the whole sheet.
1. Select the range you need and press Ctrl + H to enable the Find and Replace dialog, and type the character you want to remove into the Find what textbox, leave nothing in the Replace with dialog. See screenshot:
2. Click Replace All, a dialog pops out to remind you the characters have been removing. See screenshot:
3. Click OK > Close. Then all instances of “A” have been removed from the selection.
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Remove all instance of a character with Remove Characters
Actually, with Kutools for Excel’s Remove Characters utility, you can more quickly and easily remove all instance of one specific character.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)
1. Select the range you need to work, and click Kutools > Text > Remove Characters. See screenshot:
2. Then in the Remove Characters dialog, check Custom option, and type the character you want to remove into the textbox. See screenshot:
3. Click Ok or Apply, all the instance of the character has been removed in the selection.
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Tip: with this utility, you can remove non-numeric characters, or non-alpha characters and so on.
Remove Characters
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