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Remove and replace special characters in VBA

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While pulling some XML from the web I ran into some special characters that display on screen, but the MSXML parser refuses to accept. They need to be converted to normal (i.e. unaccented) characters before we can parse the XML.

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Is that an Excel file I see?

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The GetFilesList function loops through a given folder, compares the file extension of each file against the given file extension, and returns a list of matching filenames.

Here's an intermediate function which can be called within the Do loop to check if the current filename has an appropriate Excel extension (i.e. instead of doing the comparison directly inside the GetFilesList function).

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Excel Tutorial Series – Text Functions

This is part three of the Excel Tutorial Series. Read all tutorial posts by browsing the Tutorial category.

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Format SSN – Updated formula

Here is an update to the code I have posted on the site at

Format SSN

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