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If space and "-" are the only 2 characters in your string then use this
formula instead in another column and copy it down

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



Then you can copy and paste special values to eliminate the formulas





"Cheryl B." wrote in message
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I have an account number of 941 486-1072 041025 in text format.

Need to remove spaces and dashes for a continuous data string.

Tried using find/replace to remove spaces and dashes and it works -
*almost*

The problem is that the last digit of 5 is replaced by a 0 (zero) and
shows
as
9414861072041020

Any suggestions? Other than manually editing each cell, that is?