When you paste or import data into the Excel spreadsheet, you might notice unusual symbols like a diamond with a question mark. The replacement character (often a black diamond with a white question mark or an empty square box) represents an unknown, unrecognized or unrepresentable character. Question mark Icons - Download 339 Free Question mark icons @ IconArchive. Search more than 600,000 icons for Web & Desktop here.
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If you have a blank box shaped/sized like the graphic or image, you have Show picture placeholders enabled (a feature for slow Internet connections).
Check your Picture Placeholder setting in Outlook
- Click the New Email button
- Go to the new message's File, Options dialogue.
- Click Mail, then Editor Options
- Select Advanced and look near the bottom of the dialogue for the option to Show Picture Placeholders.
- Uncheck the box to Show picture placeholders
- Close the dialogue then close the message.
After changing the settings, close the message. Do not send it!
You need to close the message to change the global setting.
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Unfortunately, you can’t remove these symbols using the standard Replace procedure.If you select this symbol and paste it into the Replace dialog box, you see thecommon space symbol:
Even more, if you try to replace it, you will see that Excel replaces all spaces in yourspreadsheet:
To remove an unknown symbol from the cell or the entire spreadsheet, you need to find thecode of this symbol and then substitute it.
To remove the black diamond with white question mark symbol
Try to use the formula:
= SUBSTITUTE (<cell>, UNICHAR (65533), “”):
Where:
- The SUBSTITUTE (<text>, <old text>, <new text>)function substitutes <new text> for <old text> ina <text>.
- The UNICHAR (<numeric value>) function returns the Unicode characterthat is referenced by the given <numeric value>.
To remove the rectangular with question mark symbol
Try to use the formula:
= SUBSTITUTE (<cell>, UNICHAR (12), “”):
To remove any strange symbol from the cell
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Use the formula:
= SUBSTITUTE (<cell>, UNICHAR (UNICODE ( (<character>)),“”):
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Where:
- The UNICODE (<character>) function returns the number (code point)corresponding to the first character of the text: