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Daniel CHEN
 
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Default How to format a phone number in Excel

Most likely 9999999999 is stored in your column as texts not numbers.
First convert them to numbers then use phone number format.

To convert to numbers, try this:
1) In any cell type number 1;
2) Press Ctrl+C to copy the cell;
3) Select the whole range which contains the text which you want to convert
to numbers;
4) Go to menu: Edit/Paste Special, check Paste - Values, Operation -
Multiple.
This will multiply all cells by 1 and automatically convert those texts into
numbers.

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Yongjun CHEN
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"tfanatik" wrote in message
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I can't get a column of numbers, 9999999999, to format as a phone number,
(999) 999-9999. I've tried phone number format, as well as what I found in
this discussion group and nothing has worked. Any new suggestions?