Using the find and replace ability in Microsoft Excel 2010, you can quickly replace duplicate letters, words and cells in a spreadsheet document of any size. The following also applies to previous ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

When you're working with a spreadsheet, duplicate data can sometimes make its way in and cause all sorts of problems. In this how-to, we demonstrate two methods of using Microsoft Excel for ...

Q. I receive a weekly sales report from our European affiliate that has between 1,260 and 2,100 city names spelled using a native spelling that does not match what we use here in our offices (42 city ...

This truly GLOBAL find and replace will help. Say that you have hundreds of similar Excel workbooks in a folder and you need to globally change “2009 Budget” to “2010 Budget” in all of the workbooks.

Messy Excel data can be a huge time-waster and a major roadblock to getting real insights. When you deal with an Excel ...