How to Find and Replace Only Two Letters in Google Sheets
Learn how to effectively find and replace specific letters in Google Sheets, ensuring accuracy by matching entire cell contents. This tutorial covers the steps to replace initials like 'QA' with their full form, 'quality assurance'.
So we want to find a couple of letters like QA and replace it with quality assurance because QA might not be exactly what we want to describe it as we may want it to be the full words. Well, I wanna show you an interesting thing we can do with find and replace . We can select this B column through Command F, click these three dots or go come over to the edit menu and click find and replace and get to the X exact in place. Well, we're gonna find QA and we're going to replace it with quality. Assurance. However, we're only looking for two particular letters, and these two particular letters, q and a, probably don't occur naturally anywhere else. However, if we're doing something like AK or la, uh, we do want to be
very sure that we're replacing it. Only when it's. The entire cell. And so for that particular case, we want to match entire cell contents. This is going to fix a lot of issues you may run into if we're taking initials and changing them into a full name. And in this particular way, we're just taking these qa. One thing also to do is make sure we're looking only at a specific range . Sometimes you're going to select all sheets or this sheet and you may not want to replace everything everywhere. So there you go. Let's click replace all . And we've replaced four instances of QA with quality assurance and there only when it's the entire cell contents.
Make sure you do click replace all . 'cause sometimes coming here. Write, find. Write the replace with. Set all this stuff up, and then just click done. But you only wanna click done when you're actually done replacing all of the letters. Thanks for watching. You are watching better sheets here on YouTube. Make sure you check out this video or this video and subscribe right now to get more tips, tricks, how tos, get more out of your Google sheets than you ever have before. I'm excited to be making a ton more videos here. Ask me questions down in the comments and I will answer them in future videos. But for right now, right here, one of these videos is gonna be your next Google sheet.