ASAP Utilities, description of our Excel tools

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Text » Advanced character remove or replace...

This utility removes or replaces certain characters in your worksheet or selected cells.
You can pick one or more characters from a list, including numbers, letters, special characters, symbols, tabs, new line characters (enters) and invisible spaces and characters.

A few practical examples of this utility:

remove all line breaks such as carriage returns and linefeeds (Alt+Enter) from your data

remove invisible characters

extract numbers from text

remove everything except for certain characters

Several buttons allow you to quickly select or deselect certain characters.

Your last used settings will be remembered.

Note:
You can use the following codes to use these special characters as replacement: {lf} = line feed (Alt+Enter/ascii code 10), {cr} = carriage return (ASCII code 13), {tab} = tab character.
If you have selected only one single cell then the utility will edit all the cells on your worksheet.

Screenshots

Example screenshot: Remove or replace certain characters in selected cells in Excel

Example screenshot: Remove or replace certain characters

Practical tricks on how this can help you

Practical 'real world' examples on our blog that show you how this tool can help you in Excel. Enjoy!

Tip: Easily remove certain or several characters at once

Starting this utility

In the Excel menu choose: ASAP Utilities » Text » Advanced character remove or replace...

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Additional keywords for this tool:
Delete, Alphabet, String, remove invisible characters, soft carriage return symbols, CRLF, line feed, find carriage returns, line feeds

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