Removing puncuation from a string of text

[TerryA]

What is the best way to remove puncuation from a string of delimited text?

 

[Special-K99]

Examples?

 

[sheetspread]

ctrl-h

 

[Rick Rothstein]

What is the best way to remove puncuation from a string of delimited text?

Give this function, which can be used as a UDF (user defined function) if needed...

Function NoPunctuation(ByVal S As String) As String
  Dim X As Long
  For X = 1 To Len(S)
    If Mid(S, X, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z0-9]" Then Mid(S, X) = " "
  Next
  NoPunctuation = Replace(S, " ", "")
End Function

HOW TO INSTALL UDFs
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If you are new to UDFs, they are easy to install and use. To install it, simply press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its menu bar, then copy/paste the above code into the code window that just opened up. That's it.... you are done. You can now use NoPunctuation just like it was a built-in Excel function. For example,

=NoPunctuation(A1)

If you are using XL2007 or above, make sure you save your file as an "Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (*.xlsm) and answer the "do you want to enable macros" question as "yes" or "OK" (depending on the button label for your version of Excel) the next time you open your workbook.