Function to Replace _ with a Space

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hello everyone, new user to the forums. tried looking this up but couldn't quite find it. i'm using a mac and running excel 2008 and trying to take the underscore out and replace it with a space so from:

ibm_us

to:

ibm us

i've looked and some people said you could just leave the replace field empty but i get an error that says excel can't find anything that matches. any idea on this? doesn't matter if it's a function or a find/replace. in fact, i would prefer that it was a function so i can just fill down. thanks. sorry if this is basic, but i definitely tried looking!
 

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greenlight said:
hello everyone, new user to the forums. tried looking this up but couldn't quite find it. i'm using a mac and running excel 2008 and trying to take the underscore out and replace it with a space so from:

ibm_us

to:

ibm us

i've looked and some people said you could just leave the replace field empty but i get an error that says excel can't find anything that matches. any idea on this? doesn't matter if it's a function or a find/replace. in fact, i would prefer that it was a function so i can just fill down. thanks. sorry if this is basic, but i definitely tried looking!
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Hi greenlight:

Welcome to MrExcel Board!

The following approach will do what you want without using any formula ...

Let us say I start off with the entry ibm_us in cell A5 ... then

1) select cell A5
2) do EDIT|REPLACE and in
Find what: Textbox key-in _ and in
Replace with: Text box key-in a space character
3) click on Replace Button

and you will see the result in cell A5 as shown in the following ...
<html><head><title>Excel Jeanie HTML</title></head><body>
Excel Workbook
A
1ibm_us
2*
3to:
4*
5ibm us
Sheet2


</body></html>

I hope this helps.
 
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Wow I really thought I tried that the first time and it didn't work. Thanks so much! Have a good one.
 
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