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Old March 29th, 2010, 01:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Jeanette
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Default Removing Dashes

I wanted to know if anyone knew how to remove
dashes say from a SS# or a phone number
without retyping all the numbers?
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Old March 29th, 2010, 01:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Gary''s Student
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Default Removing Dashes

Say your data is in A1. In another cell:

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")

You can then copy this cell and paste/special/value back onto A1
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"Jeanette" wrote:

I wanted to know if anyone knew how to remove
dashes say from a SS# or a phone number
without retyping all the numbers?

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Old March 29th, 2010, 02:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Don Guillett[_2_]
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Default Removing Dashes

editreplace

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I wanted to know if anyone knew how to remove
dashes say from a SS# or a phone number
without retyping all the numbers?


 




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