On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:02:01 -0700, Cheryl B.
wrote:

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?

When you are doing your find/replace and winding up with digits, excel converts
it to a number. Since Excel numbers can only have 15 digits, the 16th digit
gets changed to a zero.

So you need to return a text string and that requires a worksheet function:

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


--ron