Find and Replace Home › Forums › Excel › Find and Replace This topic has 1 reply, 1 voice, and was last updated 1 week, 5 days ago by administrator@dailyexcel.net. Viewing 1 reply thread Author Posts October 1, 2025 at 16:02 #10872 Reply MGuest Why doesn’t Find and Replace work with this character ~ I literally can’t remove it other than by manually entering every cell. October 3, 2025 at 23:45 #10904 Reply administrator@dailyexcel.netKeymaster That’s a tilde ~ character. To replace a tilde (or a wildcard character, a question mark ? and asterisk *) you will have to use another tilde to tell Excel you aren’t trying to use wildcard characters in Find and Replace. Type ~~ in order to replace ~ ~? in order to replace ? ~~ in order to replace ~ Br, This reply was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by administrator@dailyexcel.net. Author Posts Viewing 1 reply thread Reply To: Reply #10904 in Find and Replace Your information: Name (required): Mail (will not be published) (required): Website: Cancel Submit