[nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in Excel
Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
ntorcolini at wavecable.com
Sun Sep 18 02:02:50 UTC 2011
Not a problem. Glad that I could help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sahar Husseini" <sahar at inebraska.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in Excel
> Lol, that was so simple. I'm not sure why I didn't think of that. I
> thought it would just see it as an apostrophe, but it really does not,
> even though Window-Eyes does say apostrophe--fascinating. Thank you very
> much for the suggestion. Of course, some of my descriptions are too long,
> so Excel stopped me from replacing all of them by saying that formula was
> too long, but I just had to do it manually. I don't know if there is a
> way around this "formula is too long" message. I get that when I
> spell-check or find and replace, but that's another problem to tackle.
> Thanks again for the suggestion. I really appreciate it. Sometimes, the
> simplest things don't occur to us. *grin*
>
> Warm regards,
> Sahar Husseini
> For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website at
> www.saharscreations.com
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> And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
> If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
> Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
> Michael Jordan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sahar Husseini
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 8:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in Excel
>
>
> Hmm, I have not. Let me see what that does. Thanks.
>
> Warm regards,
> Sahar Husseini
> For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website at
> www.saharscreations.com
> Find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saharscreations
> And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
> If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
> Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
> Michael Jordan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in Excel
>
>
> Have you tried copying and pasting the symbol?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sahar Husseini" <sahar at inebraska.com>
> To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in Excel
>
>
> >I am using a desktop. The find and replace does not seem to recognize
> the
> >characters when you use Alt and the combination of characters. For
> >example, when I type Alt 8217 in the find dialogue box, it is not
> found
> >even though I know this is the ASCII character I want to replace. I
> am
> >using the number pad to do this. Thanks.
> >
> > Warm regards,
> > Sahar Husseini
> > For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website at
> > www.saharscreations.com
> > Find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saharscreations
> > And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
> > If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
> > Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
> > Michael Jordan
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
> > To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in
> Excel
> >
> >
> > Are you using a laptop or a desktop? This affects the answer.
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sahar Husseini" <sahar at inebraska.com>
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> > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:30 AM
> > Subject: [nfbcs] Replacing an ASCII Character with Another in Excel
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an Excel sheet that has a list of products. When I export
> it to
> > my
> > > Ecommerce software, the apostrophe will often appear as some weird
> > square
> > > box. I found out that the ASCII character for the apostrophe is
> 39,
> > and
> > > the ASCII character for this weird box is 8217. I want to replace
> all
> > of
> > > the 8217 ASCII characters with ASCII 39. The find and replace box
> > isn't
> > > working for me. Does anyone have any idea on how I would go about
> > doing
> > > this? I have 718 products. Doing it by hand would be insane.
> Thanks
> > for
> > > any ideas.
> > >
> > > Warm regards,
> > > Sahar Husseini
> > > For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website
> at
> > > www.saharscreations.com
> > > Find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saharscreations
> > > And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
> > > If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
> > > Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
> > > Michael Jordan
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