A couple of alternatives:
- format the cell as Text before removing the dashes
- put an apostrophe before the 0 before removing the dashes
- remove the dashes in another cell, using SUBSTITUTE:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")
- give the cell a custom number format like 000000000

Hope this helps,

Hutch

"Pierre" wrote:

Good day all,
I am trying to change this number 01-465-9273 to show up as 014659273. It is
easy enough to make the (-) go away but it takes the zeros at the beginning
of the number away as well which defeats the purpose

Thanks
--
Pierre