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Gord Dibben Gord Dibben is offline
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Default Change first character in a cell

Nothing wrong with Toppers' formula.

Apparently you typed or copied incorrectly.

But I see from other post you got the job done.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:04:05 +0200, houghi wrote:

Apparently it contains an error.

Toppers wrote:
In a "helper" column put:

="32"& RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)

Copy down.

Copy & Paste Special=Values to remove" formula.

"houghi" wrote:

I have a list of +2000 phonenumbers and they are in the format of
012345678 but must become 3212345678, so the first 0 needs to become 32

I searched, but was unable to find a solution. Any idea?



houghi