I have a column in excel that has a list of circuit id's. All of these
have hyphens/dashes in them and some are in different locations. (Ex.
13-44M-121-0001, 13-44M1-210-0001) Is there anyway to delete all of the
hyphens/dashes, without having to go into each cell individually? I
still need the characters to remain in order, just without the hyphens.
(Ex. 1344M1210001, 1344M12100001)

Thanks!


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As long as there are letters in the sequences,

Select all the cells or an area that contains all the cells but not hyphens
you do not want to delete.

then do Edit=>Replace

Replace What: =

Replace With: ' leave blank

Then click OK

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


rmaloy > <<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a column in excel that has a list of circuit id's. All of these
> have hyphens/dashes in them and some are in different locations. (Ex.
> 13-44M-121-0001, 13-44M1-210-0001) Is there anyway to delete all of the
> hyphens/dashes, without having to go into each cell individually? I
> still need the characters to remain in order, just without the hyphens.
> (Ex. 1344M1210001, 1344M12100001)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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> Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/
>

Hi
try 'Search and Replace' from the Edit menu

Frank

> I have a column in excel that has a list of circuit id's. All of
these
> have hyphens/dashes in them and some are in different locations. (Ex.
> 13-44M-121-0001, 13-44M1-210-0001) Is there anyway to delete all of
> the hyphens/dashes, without having to go into each cell individually?
> I still need the characters to remain in order, just without the
> hyphens. (Ex. 1344M1210001, 1344M12100001)
>
> Thanks!

This is one way:


Set theRange = Sheet1.Range("A14") ''your range here
For Each oCell In theRange
oCell.Value = Replace(oCell.Value, "-", "")
Next
Set theRange = Nothing

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Ray at home
Microsoft ASP MVP


"rmaloy >" <<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a column in excel that has a list of circuit id's. All of these
> have hyphens/dashes in them and some are in different locations. (Ex.
> 13-44M-121-0001, 13-44M1-210-0001) Is there anyway to delete all of the
> hyphens/dashes, without having to go into each cell individually? I
> still need the characters to remain in order, just without the hyphens.
> (Ex. 1344M1210001, 1344M12100001)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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> Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/
>

Just for interest.
In the US menu structure it is just Edit=>Replace

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


Frank Kabel <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
> try 'Search and Replace' from the Edit menu
>
> Frank
>
> > I have a column in excel that has a list of circuit id's. All of
> these
> > have hyphens/dashes in them and some are in different locations. (Ex.
> > 13-44M-121-0001, 13-44M1-210-0001) Is there anyway to delete all of
> > the hyphens/dashes, without having to go into each cell individually?
> > I still need the characters to remain in order, just without the
> > hyphens. (Ex. 1344M1210001, 1344M12100001)
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

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