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How do I update the text in an Excel worksheet?

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Posted on by comma 116

For example, suppose I have a single row with 2 columns like this:
   |       A        |       B      |
-------------------------- 
1 | Penelope | George   |

I want to remove every "e" from the text contained in these cells and update each cell value with this new text. How do I do this?

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    Try this:

     

    1) 'Open Excel' - open the file with data to be worked

    2) 'Get first free row on column from Excel worksheet - to find last column with data

    3) 'Loop' - from 1 to FirstFreeColumn - 1

    Inside Loop:

    'Read from Excel worksheet' - read cell w/ row = 1, column = LoopIndex

    'Replace text' - replace "e" with empty (%""%). It'll generate a 'Replaced' variable

    'Write do Excel workheet' - write 'Replaced' to cell w/row = 1, column = LoopIndex

    Close Loop

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