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

The function should look something like this: "RIGHT (B2,4)." Remove text strings using Excel 2007's "Replace" command. Select all the cells in which you want to replace characters.

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.