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I am trying to find and replace the * (star, or shift+8) character in a bunch of formulas in Excel 2007. * of course matches the ENTIRE contents of the cell, which is not what I want. How do I disable this behavior?

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Search and Replace

Search for ~*

Replace with whatever.

Cheers!

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and by Search and Replace I of course mean CTRL + H Find and Replace – rlemon Aug 5 '11 at 18:48
+1 Hit Ctrl-H, Put ~* in the Find field and + in the replace, and it changed the formula. Very nice. – rajah9 Aug 5 '11 at 18:48
Works like a charm. Thank you! – Zach Aug 5 '11 at 19:00
@Zach, glad to help. – rlemon Aug 5 '11 at 19:01
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if it works like a charm, accept the answer !!! – iDevlop Aug 5 '11 at 19:18
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If you are doing this in code, you can look for CHAR(42), which is the numeric code for the * symbol.

Depending on how you do it, you should even be able to use the CHAR(42) in a worksheet formula.

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