unusual characters

[george]

I've got an excel file that contains several unusual
characters. These look like square boxes, and they screw
up some code that I've written to process my data.

I can't do a find and replace because I don't know what the
character is and I can't paste it. If I paste it into
notepad, it looks like 2 double quotation marks on seperate
lines!

Any ideas on what these are and how to get rid of them?

Thanks,
George

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Try

edit>replace, in the find what box hold down alt while typing 010 on the
numpad, release alt
if you want to replace them with a space type a space in the replace with
bow otherwise leave it empty
If that doesn't work try with 013

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[Ben Kovar]

Hello Peo,

When I typed what you suggested and pushed the replace all
key, I got a message that indicated that the character did
not exist. However, when I put the following formula in
the adjacent cell, it removed the square:

 

[Ben Kovar]

Whoops, the formula was as follows:
=substitute(cell,char(10),"")

Any other thoughts on how to use replace to get rid of
these?

Thanks,

Ben

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

What can I say, it works for me replacing carriage returns (that's what they
are) using edit>replace
Make sure you don't have anything checked in match case or match entire cell
contents

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[Peo Sjoblom]

Also make sure you type 010 and not 10 on the numpad holding down alt

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[Ben Kovar]

Hello Peo,

I got it to work! I missed the fact that the numbers had
to be typed on the numpad in your earlier message. I had
used the numbers above the letters by mistake.

Thanks!!!!

Ben

 

[george]

Cheers Peo, I've got it to work as well, but its strange
because it can only find these values if I do it first
thing after opening the spreadsheet, if I try and do it
later then it can't find these values??!

There are still some characters being displayed, so I
suspect these are other non-printing characters like tabs
or something, again they appear like squares. Fortunately
they don't affect my program, but is there any tools I can
use to find out what their codes are, or is there any way
that I can prevent Foxpro from exporting them??

Cheers,
George