remove square character from sheet

RompStar

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I have some square characters in my sheet, in various columns, I think this is a Tab.

How do I selected the whole sheet and scan from these and replace them with a blank ?
 

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how about in VBA ? If I wanted to do a for each sheet in workbook, scan whole sheet and remove them or replace with a blank ?
 
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Actually I solved this problem with writing an SQL Query (oracle) to remove any non-printable characters and that removed those square characters, so that worked really fast too!


regexp_replace(notes, '[^[:print:]]') as Notes_Tab_Fixed
 
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