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Old 10-15-2013, 01:42 PM
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Isn't there an argument you can supply to the REPLACE function that does it to all occurrences, not just the first one? Let's see.... Nope, guess I just dreamt that. No, wait a minute, here it is; use SUBSTITUTE instead.

SUBSTITUTE(text, old_text, new_text, [instance_num])The SUBSTITUTE function syntax has the following arguments:
  • Text Required. The text or the reference to a cell containing text for which you want to substitute characters.
  • Old_text Required. The text you want to replace.
  • New_text Required. The text you want to replace old_text with.
  • Instance_num Optional. Specifies which occurrence of old_text you want to replace with new_text. If you specify instance_num, only that instance of old_text is replaced. Otherwise, every occurrence of old_text in text is changed to new_text.
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