However if there are any instances where the word or number you’re searching for is a section of text in a cell you don’t want to replace, you could risk losing data that you don’t want to replace.This tutorial will teach you how to group worksheets together in Excel to get the ability to modify multiple sheets at a time. If you’re very brave, you could select Replace All rather than stepping through every one using the procedure above.
Continue cycling through Find Next and Replace until all of the instances of what your searching for have been found and replaced.If you’ve found one you don’t want to replace, just select Find Next instead to move on. Select Replace to replace that instance.Select Find Next to highlight the first location with the text or number you’re searching for.Then, you follow the steps below to search and replace all instances of what you’re searching for.
The way this field works is you type the text or number you’d like to replace the text you’ve entered into the Find what field with. The only difference is that now you’ll see a Replace with field. Just like in the previous section, you’ll need to select Options to see all of the advanced search features.Īll of the advanced search features work exactly like they do in the Find tab. You can also open this window at the Replace tab by selecting the Home menu, selecting Find & Replace from the Editing group in the ribbon, and then selecting Replace. In the same Find and Replace window, if you select the Replace tab, you’ll see additional options that’ll let you not only find text or numbers in your spreadsheet but you can replace those with different text or numbers. For example, if you actually want to find the word “user?” (including the question mark) you can type user~? and this will override the special ? character to actually do the search including the question mark.