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

Substitute and Replace functions are text functions. We explain how to use the Substitute and Replace functions in Microsoft Excel.

You can search in Excel with the Search Sheet bar, and use Find and Replace to swap out terms or values. Here's how to do it.

Say that you have hundreds of similar Excel workbooks in a folder and you need to globally change “2009 Budget” to “2010 Budget” in all of the workbooks.

Remove a Formula in Excel In some cases, you may use an Excel formula to do a multi-step calculation but you'd prefer to simply replace the results by the actual number rather than by the formula.

This approach results in a single spellcheck operation for the entire document, which is much faster than performing 42 individual search-and-replace operations. If your Excel’s spellcheck dictionary ...