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I'm trying to replace an asterisk that appears multiple times in an Excel
file. When I try to do this, Excel thinks everything applies because the
asterisk is the wildcard. I've tried "Match entire cell contents."
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Hi, ace.
Search for:
~*

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I'm trying to replace an asterisk that appears multiple times in an Excel
file. When I try to do this, Excel thinks everything applies because the
asterisk is the wildcard. I've tried "Match entire cell contents."

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Use ~* in the find.

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I'm trying to replace an asterisk that appears multiple times in an Excel
file. When I try to do this, Excel thinks everything applies because the
asterisk is the wildcard. I've tried "Match entire cell contents."



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Wildcards should be preceded by a tilde ~

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I'm trying to replace an asterisk that appears multiple times in an Excel
file. When I try to do this, Excel thinks everything applies because the
asterisk is the wildcard. I've tried "Match entire cell contents."

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