Is there a way to mass replace all?

mikeyates

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  1. 365
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First of all, you all have been great. I really appreciate this forum.

We have a 27 question survey that I have to report. We can have up to 45 students. 23 of those 27 questions have 6 options and the last 4 questions are comments.
I have to report this in XML later, but I don't think matters for my question.

I have found a way (thanks to earlier help) to automatically take the evaluations and put them in the report format that I need.
However, I'm trying to fill that on down to the possible 45 students.

Excel wants to assume the next wrong. It wants to go chronologically, and my report doesn't work that way.
Right now, I'm having to remove the =, find and replace all one line at a time. But I'm expecting 1300 lines.

Can I customize the way Excel auto fills?
Can I write a script for a mass replace all?

Just to clarify, Each student is one row, and each question is one column.
I report them one student at a time.

I took a screenshot of two students, one with the = and one without, so that you could see what it's supposed to look like, and what I'm dealing with behind the scenes.
You'll see the pattern of the rows and columns.

Forgive me if this question isn't really an excel question and is more of a bash script question.
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