Deleting special characters (*) when importing .txt files in Excel 2007 [Solved]

Deleting special characters (*) when importing .txt files in Excel 2007

Dear Members,

I have many .txt files that I need to import into excel (Office 2007 in windows XP SP3) and delete some rows/columns and then save in .txt back again.

I have noticed that when I do that, many special characters (mostly *) comes up in every cells.
When I Ctrl+F for *, I can find many entries, but the * is not visible in any cells.
When I tried to replace * with a space or any other character, whole of
the cell contents got replaced!!

The software that I wanted to upload these edited .txt files into does not accept files with these special characters.

Please help me solve this problem.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Kart.

Keys to the Problem Deleting special characters (*) when importing .txt files in Excel 2007

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Hi,
try this ..

press Ctrl+A
Edit > Replace > Find What (write the below 2 characters)
 ~* (tilde and asterisk)
(the tilde character is below Esc button)
Replace with (leave it blank)
Replace All > OK >Close

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• Go to the Start button.
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• At the command prompt, type "chkdsk /r /f" (without quotes) and press Enter.
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• Go to theStart button.
• Go to "All Programs > Accessories" and right click on "Command Prompt".
• Select "Run as Administrator".
• In the Search box, type "cmd" (without quotes) and press Enter.
• At the command prompt, type "chkdsk /r /f" (without quotes) and press Enter.
• Reboot your computer.

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