Macros to find all Special Character in all columns and rows of excel

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You can use VBA to loop through all cells in your Excel sheet, identify special characters, and replace them with your desired characters. Below is a VBA macro that does this:

Vba Code is untested, please backup you file first.

Sub ReplaceSpecialCharacters()
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim cell As Range
    Dim specialChars As String
    Dim replaceChar As String
    
    ' Define the worksheet to be processed
    Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1") ' Update "Sheet1" with your sheet name
    
    ' Define the range to be processed (assuming data starts from A1)
    Set rng = ws.UsedRange
    
    ' Define the special characters to be replaced
    specialChars = "~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\|;:',<.>/?"
    
    ' Define the character to replace special characters with
    replaceChar = "|" ' You can change this to whatever character you want
    
    ' Loop through each cell in the range
    For Each cell In rng
        If Not IsEmpty(cell.Value) Then
            ' Loop through each character in the cell's value
            For i = 1 To Len(cell.Value)
                ' Check if the character is a special character
                If InStr(specialChars, Mid(cell.Value, i, 1)) > 0 Then
                    ' Replace the special character with the desired character
                    cell.Value = Replace(cell.Value, Mid(cell.Value, i, 1), replaceChar)
                End If
            Next i
        End If
    Next cell
End Sub

Here is what the macro does:

1. It defines the worksheet to be processed (ws) and the range to be processed (rng). You need to update "Sheet1" with the name of your sheet.
2. It defines the special characters to be replaced (specialChars) and the character to replace them with (replaceChar). You can modify these variables as needed.
3. It loops through each cell in the specified range and checks each character in the cell's value.
4. If a special character is found, it replaces it with the desired character.

Before running the macro, make sure to save your workbook because it will modify the data in your Excel sheet. You can run the macro by pressing Alt + F11 to open the VBA editor, inserting a new module, pasting the code into the module, and then running the macro from the Excel interface. The text, steps and code were created with the help of AI.

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