albatross. 1  A metaphor for a dead weight or burden that one must carry, especially when the burden is not a literal one but a stigma of some kind that one cannot easily discard or throw off. The name comes from a story about a sailor who killed an albatross that was following his ship, an act thought to bring bad luck upon the ship.
Run the Remove Characters tool by clicking on its icon under the Ablebits Data tab in Excel. To remove characters select the range with the cells that contain values you want to delete. Expand the group Remove characters or substrings. You can select one of three radio buttons according to your task.
Select the cells containing the numbers. If you want to remove the dashes from the entire worksheet, click the Select All button, which is the rectangle between A and 1 in the upper left of the worksheet.To select an entire row or column, click on the number or letter pertaining to that row or column.n Excel 2003 or earlier, go to the Format menu and click Cells.. Go to the Number tab of the Format Cells dialog box. Select Number in the Category box. Change Decimal Places to 0 and click OK.. Open the Find and Replace dialog while the cells are still selected.