With your data in cell A1 try the below to remove the first hyphen

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","",1)

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Jacob Skaria


"Huber57" wrote:

All:

I have searched the posts and on Google but I can't find the answer.

I have a cell:

Kemet - ECJ-1238FG47KGCH1

I want to replace only the first hyphen in the cell with a | so I can use
Text to Columns.

Is there a better way?

Thanks much.