How to remove non-alphanumeric characters in Excel?

Supposing there is a range of data, such as JAMES0898#4%^{}, which contains non-alphanumeric characters in a worksheet, and now you just only want to remove the non-alphanumeric characters and keep the alphanumeric characters. For example, JAMES0898#4%^{} > JAMES0898. How do you quickly delete those non-alphanumeric characters in Excel?

Remove non-alphanumeric characters with VBA code

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Remove non-alphanumeric characters with VBA code

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With the following short VBA code, you can remove the non-alphanumeric characters as well. You can do it as this:

1. Select the range that you want to delete the non-alphanumeric characters.

2. Click Developer>Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed, click Insert > Module, and input the following code into the Module:

VBA:Remove all non-alphanumeric characters

Sub RemoveNotAlphasNotNum()
'Updateby2014128
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
For Each Rng In WorkRng
    xOut = ""
    For i = 1 To Len(Rng.Value)
        xTemp = Mid(Rng.Value, i, 1)
        If xTemp Like "[a-z.]" Or xTemp Like "[A-Z.]" Or xTemp Like "[0-9.]" Then
            xStr = xTemp
        Else
            xStr = ""
        End If
        xOut = xOut & xStr
    Next i
    Rng.Value = xOut
Next
End Sub

2. Click button to execute the code.

3. Then select a range you want to remove all non-alphanumeric characters in the pop-up dialog, see screenshot:

4. Click OK, and all of the non-alphanumeric characters have been deleted from the cells. See screenshot:

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With above two methods, you need to know the codes, but as Excel beginners, most of us can’t use the code, so here I will give you an easy way to do it.

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If you have installed Kutools for Excel, please do it as following steps:

1. Select the range that you need to remove the non-alphanumeric characters.

2. Click Kutools > Text Tools > Delete Characters, see screenshot:

3. Then a Delete Characters dialog box will appear, check Non-alphanumeric option, and you can see the result from the Preview Pane. See screenshot:

4. Click OK. And all of the non-alphanumeric characters have been deleted from the text string.

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