Most of you may consider directly entering the asterisk (.), question mark (?) or tilde character into the Find text box and replace them. But in this way, you will get the wrong result. This article, I will talk about how to find and replace asterisk / question mark / tilde in Excel quickly and correctly. Find and replace fill color with Kutools for Excel. If you are interested in other solutions to deal with this task, I can introduce you a handy tool – Kutools for Excel, with its Select Cells with Format utility, you can quickly select all the cells with the same formatting with a specific cell.

Excel 2010’s Find and Replace feature can be a powerful tool. Use Find and Replace to search for — and optionally replace — text or values in a worksheet. You can narrow the search results by specifying formatting to look for as well as other search options, including Match Case.

Finding data

Follow these steps to locate data in a worksheet:

1. Choose Find & Select in the Editing group on the Home tab, and then select Find (or press Ctrl+F).

   The Find and Replace dialog box appears with the Find tab on top.

2. In the Find What box, enter the data you want to locate.

3. (Optional) Click the Options button to expand the dialog box and specify any desired options.

   • Within: Search just the current worksheet or the entire workbook.

   • Search: Select whether to search first across the rows or down the columns.

   • Look In: Select whether you want to search through the values or formula results, through the actual formulas, or if you want to look in the comments.

   • Match Case: Check this box if you want your search to be case-specific.

   • Match Entire Cell Contents: Check this box if you want your search results to list only the items that exactly match your search criteria.

     Specify search options on the Find tab in the Find and Replace dialog box.

4. Click Find Next.

   Excel jumps to the first occurrence of the match. If this is not the entry you’re looking for, click Find Next again. Excel advises you if it doesn’t locate the data you’re searching for.

5. Click Close when you’ve located the entry you want.

You can use wildcards to search for data in your worksheets. Use the ? (question mark) to indicate a single unknown character, or the * (asterisk) to indicate multiple unknown characters.

Replacing data

To find and replace data in a worksheet, follow these steps:

1. Choose Find & Select in the Editing group on the Home tab, and then select Replace (or press Ctrl+H).

   The Find and Replace dialog box appears with the Replace tab on top.

2. In the Find What box, enter the data you want to locate.

3. In the Replace With box, enter the data with which you want to replace the found data.

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4. (Optional) Click the Options button and specify any desired options.

5. Click Find Next to locate the first occurrence or click Find All to display a list of all occurrences.

   You can sort the results of a Find All search by clicking a column heading.

6. If you want to use the replacement data, click Replace.

   Excel performs the replacement and locates the next occurrence.

7. If you want to replace all occurrences at the same time, click Replace All.

   Excel displays an information box indicating the number of replacements made.

8. Click OK in the alert box and then click Close.

How to quickly find and replace across multiple worksheets or the whole workbook?

To find and replace a character or word in the active worsheet may be easy for you, but how about finding and replacing across multiple worksheets or the whole workbook? Following this tutorial, you will find the tricks.

Find and replace across multiple worksheets or whole workbook with handy Kutools for Excel

Find and replace across multiple worksheets or whole workbook with Find and Replace feature

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1. Press Ctrl key to select multiple sheets you want to find and replace at the meanwhile. See screenshot:

Tip: Holding the Ctrl key, you can select multiple nonadjacent sheets with clicking each sheet in the Sheet Tab bar; Holding the Shift key, you can select multiple adjacent sheets with clicking the first sheet and the last one in the Sheet Tab bar.

2. Then press Ctrl + H to open Find and Replace dialog, then type the text you want to replace into Find what textbox, and the text needed to be replace with into the Replace with textbox. See screenshot:

3. Click Replace All. And a dialpg pops out to tell you how many replacements have been made. See screenshot:

4. Click OK > Close to close dialogs. Now the texts have been replaced.

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1. Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog, type the text you want to replace into Find what textbox, and the text needed to be replace with into the Replace with textbox. See screenshot:

2. Click Options to expand the dialog, then select Workbook in the Within drop down list. See screenshot:

3. Click the Replace All button. Then a new dialog pops out and shows how many replacements have been made.

4. Click OK > Close to close the dailogs. Then all the texts you specified have been replaced in the whole workbook.

Find and replace across multiple worksheets or whole workbook with handy Kutools for Excel

With Kutools for Excel, you can find and replace a word across sheets and the whole workbook by the Navigation pane.

After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Open the workbook, and click Kutools > Navigation to show the Navigation pane, then click Find and Replace tab to go to Find and Replace section. See screenshot:

2. In the Find and Replace section:

(1) Select Replace tab, and type the text you want to replace in the Find what textbox, and the text you want to replace with in the Replace with textbox. See screenshot:

(2) If you want to find and replace works across whole workbook, select Active workbook from the Within drop down list, and if you want to find and replace across some specified sheets, just click All workbooks from the Within drop down list, then check the sheets you want under Workbooks list. see screenshots:

Tip: If you can’t find out the Within drop down list and Workbooks list, please click the expand button to expand the advanced Find and Replace options. See below screenshot:

3. Click Replace All. Then the finding and replacement has been finished.

With Kutools for Excel’s Navigation pane, you can toggle between two worksheets, list all sheets, columns and names, add the pictures or formulas you usually use into the favorites and so on. For more details about Navigation pane, please click here.

Note: In default, the shortcuts for enabling the Kutools' Find and Replace dialog is Win + W, but if you are familiar with the shortcut Ctrl + F, you can go to setting to check Pressing Ctrl + F to apply Find and Replace of Kutools option , and then when you press Ctrl + F, this Find and Replace dialog pops out.

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