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Connie Martin Connie Martin is offline
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Default "Replace all" changes formatting

I have formatted a column to text. Currently in the column is a list copy
and pasted from MAS 500. Contents of each cell look something like this:
SO-0000001016. With the column formatted as text, I did Edit/Replace,
replacing SO- with nothing, intending to remove simply the SO- and leave the
six zeros. However, it wipes out the six zeros, as well, leaving simply
1016. If I manually remove SO- on every number, the six zeros remain. What
gives?