Removing Dashes

J

Jeanette

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

Gary''s Student

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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