On Mar 2, 4:12*pm, Dave Peterson wrote:
Can you just import it with the dashes and then do an Edit|Replace to remove
those dashes (select the area first!)?

On 03/02/2011 10:42, Robert Cooper wrote:

In Excel 2007 I am regularly importing information about bonds. *The
import includes dashes in the CUSIP number. *Is there a way to import
into Excel 2007 eliminating the dashes? *I will the copy and paste the
information into Bloomberg and Bloomberg does not recognize the
dashes. *I know how to eliminate the dashes following the import. *I
am trying to eliminate that step as we will be doing this daily.

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Dave Peterson

It looks like that is going to be the answer. I was hoping to
eliminate a step because this is going to be a daily and sometimes
several times a day process. Thanks.