excel - Remove character only during search? -


i have excel file faq lots of q&a. on first worksheet there search function. enter word(s) want search , press enter. function looks these word(s) in entire workbook. able proper search have remove full stop, comma, exclamation , question marks.

i use replace this, didn't think of consequences. characters remove permanently text makes little hard read , ugly at.

so question is, how can remove these characters during search? have copy each text new cell , search there, or there way?

this part of function remove characters , final search.

function findwords(celltosearch range, nofwords integer, mywords string) long  dim counter long dim word, element dim arr, wordsarr  celltosearch = replace(celltosearch, chr(33), "") celltosearch = replace(celltosearch, chr(44), "") celltosearch = replace(celltosearch, chr(46), "") celltosearch = replace(celltosearch, chr(63), "")  wordsarr = split(mywords) arr = split(celltosearch)  if ubound(arr) > 0     each word in wordsarr         each element in arr             if lcase(word) = lcase(element) counter = counter + 1         next     next else     ' cell search empty     counter = 0 end if  if counter = nofwords     findwords = 1 else     findwords = 0 end if  end function 

you use variable:

function findwords(celltosearch range, nofwords integer, mywords string) long  dim counter long dim word, element dim arr, wordsarr dim sfindword string sfindword = celltosearch.value sfindword = replace(sfindword , chr(33), "") sfindword = replace(sfindword , chr(44), "") sfindword = replace(sfindword , chr(46), "") sfindword = replace(sfindword , chr(63), "")  wordsarr = split(mywords) arr = split(sfindword)  if ubound(arr) > 0     each word in wordsarr         each element in arr             if lcase(word) = lcase(element) counter = counter + 1         next     next else     ' cell search empty     counter = 0 end if  if counter = nofwords     findwords = 1 else     findwords = 0 end if  end function 

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