View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Dar Dar[_2_] Dar Dar[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1
Default Delete a period in a cell

Hi Peo,

Thanks so much. It works like magic. :)

By any chance, do you know if there is a way to set up in Excel to
automatically change to that format all time?

Thanks again. Have a great day.

Dar Dar

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

You can use a help column with formulas, assume the import starts in A2, in
B2 put (if B2 is taken select column B and do insertcolumn)

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"-",".",2),"-","")

copy down as long as needed and the copy and paste special as values over
the old values


finally delete the help column

of course this assumes that there are 2 dashes/hyphens to replace and that
you want to remove the first and replace the second with a period


--
Regards,

Peo Sjoblom


"Dar Dar" <Dar wrote in message
...
I have below data in the excel from an import.

001-8420-849900

I want to change into 0018420.849900.

I know how to replace "-" with "." but not sure how to delete one of "."

Thanks!