{"id":1016,"date":"2013-12-17T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2013-12-17T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:25:34","slug":"findingreplacing-control-characters-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Finding\/Replacing control characters in Excel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some database work, I found myself needing to replace extraneous tab characters in a couple columns in Excel.  Here is how I was able to do it.  This method could just as easily be applied to any other control character once you know the ASCII code.<\/p>\n<p>Go into Find\/Replace.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;Find what&#8221; field, just hold down the Alt key and enter 0009.  <\/p>\n<p>Release the Alt, and Find\/Replace as you usually would.<\/p>\n<p>This will find all the tab characters since 9 is the ASCII code for tab.  You can do this for any other ASCII character as well, but I doubt that would come up very often.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some database work, I found myself needing to replace extraneous tab characters in a couple columns in Excel. Here is how I was able to do it. This method could just as easily be applied to any other control character once you know the ASCII code. Go into Find\/Replace. In the &#8220;Find what&#8221; [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[345,344],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-control-character","tag-excel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}