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Normally, inside a textbox, the shortcut Ctrl+Backspace deletes the previous word, but in the Excel Find and Replace window, it doesn't work and it inserts a character with a rectangular shape.

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Is there a way to change that?

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At the moment there's no official way (and there probably never be, because Microsoft), but you can use an AutoHotKey script to do that. You can follow the other answers on StackExchange here and here.

Basically, just install AHK and create a script with this line:

^Backspace::Send ^+{Left} {Backspace}

then double click on the .ahk file to run it.

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Currently, there is no way to change that. This is part of a legacy behavior that was also present in Notepad before it was removed in 2018. It might eventually get patched in Excel as well.

The weird character in question is the ASCII "DELETE" control character (0x7F); more info here.

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