Excel For Mac Find And Replace Special Characters

I can't find it either, but the following appears to work:


  1. Turn on Show Invisibles in the View menu.
  2. Select (highlight) the double para breaks.
  3. Use Command-E (Find using selected text).
  4. Open the Find dialogue box (Command-F) and select Find & Replace.

    The selected para breaks will be in the Find text entry box, but will not be visible!

  5. Click in the Replace text entry box.
  6. Select (highlight) a single para break.
  7. Go to the Edit menu / Find and select 'Use selection for replace' (it will not show in the Replace entry box).
  8. In the Find & Replace dialogue box, click on the Forward or Back arrows to highlight the selected items (e.g. double para break) where you wish to start replacing in the document.
  9. Use the Replace All / Replace & Find / Replace buttons as per usual.

Click on “Replace All” or just “Replace” if you want to go cell by cell. In some cases, there a space characters at the end of a line. When that happens, you will get a double space. You might want to use the replace function again, but this time replace all double spaces (type 2x space on the keyboard) by just one space. Select the list you will replace all after/before the specific characters, and press the Ctrl + H keys simultaneously to open the Find and Replace dialog box. Note: You can also open the Find and Replace dialog box by clicking Home Find & Select Replace. In the Find and Replace dialog box, please do as follows：. Select the “Options” button to expand the Find and Replace options. You do not need to enter text or numbers that you want to find and replace unless required. Click the “Format” button next to the “Find What” and “Replace With” text boxes to set the formatting. Specify the formatting you want to find or replace. We can remove carriage return character from excel cell by using a couple of methods, the first method is by using the replace method. Select the data range and press the Ctrl + H shortcut key. We need to first find what the value we are replacing is, and in this case, we are finding the “Carriage Return” character to insert this character. To replace the characters in the Find what field with nothing, leave the Replace with field empty. Click Find Next. To replace the highlighted occurrence, click Replace. You can also use wildcards to find and replace text. Notes:. Click the arrow at the bottom of the Find and Replace dialog box to show all options.

Excel For Mac Find And Replace Special Characters Without


MacFind and replace on excel

Not a nice solution, but I hope it gets you going until Apple restores the previous functionality!

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Oct 24, 2013 7:47 PM