Removing a letter from a cell

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Pauls123

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Hi all, In Excel 2010, I am copying and pasting data from a webpage, and a certain cell has something like the follow:

1.5L
.5L
3L

Along those lines, how can I remove that "L"

Regards, Paul
 

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Pauls123 said:
Hi all, In Excel 2010, I am copying and pasting data from a webpage, and a certain cell has something like the follow:

1.5L
.5L
3L

Along those lines, how can I remove that "L"

Regards, Paul
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Try this...

Select the range of cells in question
Goto the Home tab>Editing group>Find & Select (the binocular icon)>Replace
Find what: L
Replace with: nothing, leave this blank
Replace All
 
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