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.
To fix this, you can run Excel's Find and Replace tool to replace your delimiter with a slash (/), all in one go: 1  Select all the text strings you want to convert to dates. 2  Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.ou will have to put a bit more effort and use both the Text to Columns wizard and Excel DATE function. 1  Select all text strings to be converted to dates. 2  Click the Text to Columns button on the Data tab, Data Tools group.