Remove Special Characters Online

Strip symbols and punctuation, keeping only the letters, numbers, or spaces you want.

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Remove Special Characters

What does this tool do?

This tool removes special characters, symbols, and punctuation from your text, keeping only the letters, numbers, and spaces you choose to allow. Useful for cleaning data before import. Runs in your browser.

How to use Remove Special Characters - Free Online Tool

  1. Paste your text (one value per line), or click "Try with sample data".
  2. Choose what to keep: letters, numbers, and/or spaces.
  3. Click Clean.
  4. Copy or download the cleaned text.

Example

Cleaning a product code:

Before

Value
#SKU-1234!!
A/B*C

After

Value
SKU1234
ABC

Symbols are stripped, keeping letters and numbers.

Excel formula alternative

Prefer a formula? You can achieve a similar result with SUBSTITUTE / regex:

nested SUBSTITUTE calls, one per character

Removing symbols in Excel means chaining many SUBSTITUTE calls. This tool strips them all at once.

When should I use this tool?

Cleaning product codes and SKUs
Preparing data for system imports
Removing punctuation from text
Stripping emojis and symbols
Normalizing IDs
Sanitizing user-entered data

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. You choose whether to keep letters, numbers, and spaces; everything else is removed.

No. Cleaning runs in your browser.

Standard letters are kept; you can decide whether to strip accented or non-Latin characters.

Yes. Paste all your values, one per line, and clean them together.

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