To be sure, Dave is suggessting use find/Replace, on the enitre set of data
at once..

Find ( Replace with (leave blank) Replace All.

Only takes as long as the number of different symbols/characters/spaces you
have.

"Icehearted" wrote:

is there a way to automate this process so i dont have to go through 1 by one?

Thanks :)

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I would select column G and do a bunch of edit|replaces.

Get rid of any special character (like hyphens, open/close parens, dots, spaces)
so that you're left with nothing but the digits.

Then apply the format you want
Format|cells|number tab|special Phone number (maybe???)

Icehearted wrote:

Hi -

Was wondering if theres a way to make all the phone numbers in my
spreadsheet uniform. I have a list of phone numbers that were copied and
pasted into a workbook. Some of these phone numbers have parenthesis, some
have spaces, some have dashes. The phone numbers are all in Column G.

Thanks much :)!

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Dave Peterson