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mhasnain2000
Jul 09, 2019Copper Contributor
how to filter special characters in Excel
Hello Everyone ,
can anyone guide me how i can filter special characters in excel, for eg . ŞTI TİC. etc.
thank you.
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- tauqeeracmaSteel Contributor
Hi Hasnain,
You can use 'custom filter' option available in filter option to find text with special characters.
You just need to place ~ before the special character you want to filter.
Thanks
Tauqeer
- mhasnain2000Copper ContributorHello Tauqeer ,
Thank you for swift reply , but seems this doesn't work with my criteria.
I have more than 10,000 rows from which i need to detect those columns only which contain anything except English Alphabets .
EG. ALTİNTAS NAKLİYE VE VİNC İSLETMECİLİGİYou may use Advance Filter
For such sample
keep B1 empty and in B2 formula
=(SUMPRODUCT(--(UNICODE(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1))>=132))>0)
which checks if in text are any non-ascii characters - UNICODE()>=132
After that select your entire range in column A, Data->Advanced Filter and here
You may filter in place, but better to copy filtered data into new column.