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In my attribute tables field. I am trying to get rid of the "&" in between names i.e. "John Adams & wife" and want it to say "John Adams and Wife" in all the attributes with "&". What is the VB for that? I can't seem to find it in the help page of ArcGIS.

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vba and vbscript are different languages. At 10.0 calculator supports vbscript and python. Before 10.0 it supported VBA and vbscript. – Kirk Kuykendall Sep 28 '11 at 19:23

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Check out the replace function in the calculate field examples. Something like this should do it:

NewString = Replace([comments], "&", "and")
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Don't forget that doing this outside of an edit session will overwrite without undo. This solution will work right but you should test more complex calculations (on the containing field). – Brad Nesom Dec 8 '10 at 2:37
Thank You, I solved it late last night. I was very close for a while then figured it out. – Zoran Dec 8 '10 at 17:16

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