Try selecting all the cells in the column with your "phone number", click
Data/TextToColumns on Excel's menu bar and then immediately click the Finish
button when the dialog box appears.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"woodeaglevigil" wrote in message
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I exported a query from a Microsoft Access database to a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet. In this query were phone numbers for 369 people (with each
person and his or her data on a different row in the spreadsheet). When I
exported the query to an Excel and changed the cell formats to the
Special-Phone Number fonts, it didn't change the display of the numbers.
It
still showed all phone numbers as 1234567890 instead of (123) 456-7890.

What is causing this is that there is an ' in front of each of the
numbers.
When I remove the apostraphe from the number is changes the phone number
to
the format I want it in.

However, I was wanting to know if there is a quick way I can remove the
apostraphes from all 360 phone numbers at once instead of having to remove
the apostraphes individually one at a time.