Question

I have downloaded an excel file where specific french characters such as é appear as ? (other specific characters are manageable). When i use the excel replace function to replace ? with é, all the characters of my file are changed to é. ? is generic and matches all characters.

I don’t find anyway to make that possible. Do you have any idea?

Answer 1

http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/excel_find_question_mark.php:

Microsoft Excel uses the tilde (~) as a marker to indicate that the
next character is a literal. When you click Find or Replace on the
Edit menu to replace or search for a tilde (~), an asterisk (*), or a
question mark (?), you must precede the character with a tilde (~).

Search instead for ~? to match a literal question mark.