Removal of thousands seperator

[Guest]

I have downloaded data with an open space as thousands seperator, an example
is a number like 2 098,67. Excel will not recognize this as a number. How can
I remove this thousands seperator so that the number becomes 2098,67? I need
to do this to use the data in another program.

I have tried the TRIM function and the replace function, but the space is
still there and the cells aren't recognized as numbers.

 

[Bob Phillips]

Try this in another column

=SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","")+0

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HTH

RP
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[R.VENKATARAMAN]

edit-replace
against find what
~(space)
replace with
(leave it blank)
click <replace all>
try this