You substitute them with nothing, as in:
=Substitute(a1,"(","")

You can nest this command if you want to do more than one character at a
time:
=substitute(substitute(a1,"(",""),")","")

Regards,
Fred

"bill" wrote in message
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I have parantheses appearing randomally in my results and want to remove
them
from results. Is there a function which would do this.