Im Not entirely sure what you mean.
If you are needing to replace text with a specific format in Excel 2000 then you can so it this way.
in my example i used numberformat but adjust to your needs
Code:
If Application.Version = "9*" Then
For Each Cell In Range("A1:D10")
If Cell.NumberFormat = "0" Then
Cell.Replace "*", "This Text"
End If
Next Cell
End If
To explain what's going on the application.version = "9*" looks for Excel 2000
i then search each cell in a specific range and if the Number format is "0" then it will replace any text with "This Text"
I had to do this with creating Charts from a pivot table in 97 to 2000 as the pivotchart was introduced, I don't Know anything of the new features of 2002 so im just guessing at a soloution
Hope this helps in any way
David