That's exactly what I did ... just wanted to see if there was another way to
do it all in one fell swoop. Your initial formula took care of the painful
editing and find/replace works for the rest of it.

Thanks again, N Harkawat !
Cheryl B.

"N Harkawat" wrote:

you could do find and replace for all other characters,
So long as "-" or a space remains in the string excel thinks it as text and
not numbers and hence will not covert the 16th digit to 0

After replacing them all you may want to use the formula offered




"Cheryl B." wrote in message
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Thank, N Harkawat ... that did work for two characters. I've since
discovered slashes and dots/periods - and may find more.

Tried editing to mimick the syntax but errors out. Is there a secret you
can share?
Thanks,


"N Harkawat" wrote:

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?