The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Find and Replace is a useful feature in the Office suite programs which allows replacing an existing text with a new text. However, it can also be used to find and replace the color of the text. You ...

Normally what we do is just press “CTRL + F”, enter ‘*’ in the ‘find’ field and click on “Find All”. It will show all the entries in the search result and there is no confusion in that. When we search ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

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This truly GLOBAL find and replace will help. Say that you have hundreds of similar Excel workbooks in a folder and you need to globally change “2009 Budget” to “2010 Budget” in all of the workbooks.

Q. I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains errors because some of the numbers that are part of the calculations are blank or zero. Is there a way to have Excel automatically return something instead ...

This is a something old, something new month for me. When a reader's question stumped me, I turned to my Office network and quickly found a solution using Find and Replace. I should've thought of it ...

If you have a large Microsoft Office Excel 2010 sheet, or multiple sheets in a workbook, finding links manually is difficult and time-consuming. To find all links faster, you must use a trick. MS ...

For a business leader, Microsoft Excel 2010 can be an invaluable tool for monitoring inventory, recording customer information or keeping track of business processes. Over time, these Excel ...