Are your "numbers" text strings, or are they numbers formatted in special
ways?
If stored as text, all you need to do is =SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","") to get rid
of the hyphens, and you'll still be left with a text string so won't lose
the leading zeroes.
If you've got SSN stored as a number and formatted to show the hyphens, then
=TEXT(A1,"000000000") would give you leading zeroes padded out to 9 digits.
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David Biddulph


"cheryltraining" wrote in message
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The spreadsheet we're working has social security numbers and phone
numbers
with dashes included. Need to remove dashes and not lose the leading zero
in
the SSN.