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Sorro911
Aug 27, 2024Copper Contributor
find & replace multiple different words at once
Hi, Does anyone know how I can find & replace multiple different words at once in Excel example: dog, cat, bird, pig, cow, chicken ***replace with a single word*** fish
Patrick2788
Sep 04, 2024Silver Contributor
I had an elegant recursive solution for you but realized I was using a few functions not available in Excel 2021. The function gap between 2021 and 365 gets larger by the month it seems.
Sorro911
Sep 07, 2024Copper Contributor
Hey mate send it through i can use 365 Web for free by the looks of it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web
- Sorro911Sep 07, 2024Copper ContributorI can also use google sheets if this helps
- LorenzoSep 07, 2024Silver Contributor
It seems I have something working decently with Power Query:
- Could you share with i.e. OneDrive, Google drive (or the like) a workbook with a representative dataset?
- More importantly what does a word mean with regard to what you expect? For example:
- We have value "A cow-boy and a cow at farm" & you want to replace cow with fish. Should cow-boy be replaced as fish-boy?
- Same question as above with value "A cow_boy and a cow at farm"
...etc