That's not a problem caused by formulas or values.
That's a problem with the way excel works with long strings in cells. You can
do a small test in a test workbook to see that using formulas works ok when
edit|replace (no long strings, though).
And you could use a macro that tries to do an edit|Replace and for all the cells
that this fails on, the macro can do the work on a cell-by-cell basis:
(Saved from a previous post)
You can use a macro to do the change:
Option Explicit
Sub testme01()
Dim FoundCell As Range
Dim ConstCells As Range
Dim BeforeStr As String
Dim AfterStr As String
BeforeStr = "$$$$$"
AfterStr = " " 'or chr(10) 'for alt-enter
With ActiveSheet
Set ConstCells = Nothing
On Error Resume Next
Set ConstCells = .Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, _
xlTextValues)
On Error GoTo 0
If ConstCells Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Select some cells in the used range"
Exit Sub
End If
With ConstCells
'get as many as we can in one step
.Replace what:=BeforeStr, Replacement:=AfterStr, _
lookat:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows
Do
Set FoundCell = .Cells.Find(what:=BeforeStr, _
after:=.Cells(1), _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
lookat:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
searchdirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False)
If FoundCell Is Nothing Then
'done, get out!
Exit Do
End If
FoundCell.Value _
= Replace(FoundCell.Value, BeforeStr, AfterStr)
Loop
End With
End With
End Sub
If you're using xl97, change that Replace() to application.substitute()
If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
Ps. Try it against a copy of your data--just in case!
