The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

This truly GLOBAL find and replace will help. 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.

Here’s the thing, one must keep in mind that the SUBSTITUTE function is case sensitive, therefore, you must use it accordingly at all times. Furthermore, it is not possible to specify wildcard entries ...