Remove asterisks in Excel - Excel Tips and Tricks

Learn how to remove asterisks in Excel, or how to find and replace asterisks in Excel. Alternatively, how do I search for an asterisk in text in Excel, and how do I remove an asterisk from text? This question can also be extended by asking how do I remove all asterisks characters from cells in Excel?

Here are the steps outlined on the video.

Remove asterisks from cells
1) Ctrl + H
2) ~*
3) Repalce All
4) Close

In Microsoft Excel, there are certain special characters that you cannot use directly in the "Find and Replace" dialog. These characters have special meanings or functions within Excel and, if used improperly, could lead to unexpected results. Here is a list of the special characters you should avoid using in the "Find and Replace" feature.
1) Asterisk (*): Used as a wildcard to represent any sequence of characters.
2) Question mark (?): Used as a wildcard to represent a single character.
3) Tilde (~): Used as an escape character to find literal occurrences of asterisk (*) and question mark (?). For example, to find "*" or "~?", you would use this character before the asterisk or question mark.
4) Left brace ({) and right brace (}): Used in combination with the curly braces to create arrays or define specific array elements (e.g., {1, 2, 3}).
5) Left bracket ([) and right bracket (]): Reserved for referencing cells in other workbooks or sheets (e.g., '[Workbook]Sheet'!$A$1).
6) Caret (^): Used as a marker for absolute references in structured references for tables.
7) Plus sign (+): Used in formulas for addition operations.
8) Minus sign (-): Used in formulas for subtraction operations.
9) Equal sign (=): Used to start formulas in Excel.
10) Ampersand (&): Used to concatenate text or values in formulas.
11) Greater than (>), less than (=), less than or equal to (