How to Remove Characters in Excel 2007. Microsoft Excel, part of the Office software suite, allows you to create business-oriented worksheets composed of columns, rows and cells. Within these ...

Excel's "Find and Replace" feature will search an entire spreadsheet or selected cells for your specified text. Excel also offer a "Replace" function.

In Microsoft Excel, you are not just able to count characters in a single/multiple cell, but also specific characters in a cell or range of cells.

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.