Removing hyphens from phone number field

[Guest]

Can anyone explain to me the most efficient way to remove the hyphens in a
list of phone numbers in my database? My current way of find and replace,
cannot be the best. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

You can use the Replace function

In the control source of the field in a report you can write

=Replace([FieldName],"-"."")

 

[Ron Weiner]

How about a Update Query to update all of the Phone numbers in the table to
numbers with no spaces.

******* UNTESTED *******

Update YourTable Set PhoneNum =
replace(replace(replace(replace(PhoneNum,"-","")," " ,""),")",""),"(","")
WHERE Not PhoneNum IsNull

******* END *******

PLEASE Perform this on a Copy of the Table in question.

What I think this query will do is to remove all of the -() and Space
characters out of the column PhoneNum in a table YourTable.