Strippinng characters out of excel
 

I have a bunch of social security numbers for employees in the following
format. We are exporting this report to the tax office and they do not
accept hyphens in the ss numbers. We have over 1000 numbers and I don't
want to do it by hand. Thanks in advance

123-456-7890

Need it to look like
1234567890

go to Edit --replace
find: -
replace : leave this blank

This will replace all the - with blank space


"Pii via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
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I have a bunch of social security numbers for employees in the following
format. We are exporting this report to the tax office and they do not
accept hyphens in the ss numbers. We have over 1000 numbers and I don't
want to do it by hand. Thanks in advance

123-456-7890

Need it to look like
1234567890

Do a global replacement in the cells in the column(s) and replace "-" by "",
no quotes.

Regards

Trevor


"Pii via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
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I have a bunch of social security numbers for employees in the following
format. We are exporting this report to the tax office and they do not
accept hyphens in the ss numbers. We have over 1000 numbers and I don't
want to do it by hand. Thanks in advance

123-456-7890

Need it to look like
1234567890

It could be that the numbers are just formatted as ss numbers, you may only
need to change the formatting to general, if you need to remove the hyphens
just use edit replace, fine what - replace with leave blank

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"Pii via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
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I have a bunch of social security numbers for employees in the following
format. We are exporting this report to the tax office and they do not
accept hyphens in the ss numbers. We have over 1000 numbers and I don't
want to do it by hand. Thanks in advance

123-456-7890

Need it to look like
1234567890

Hi Pii

Assume SS Numbers In Column A

In Column B =Left(A1,3)
In Column C =Mid(A1,5,3)
In Column D =Right(A1,4)
In Column E =B1&C1&D1

Copy down all formulae in Columns B,C,D & E
Then CopyPasteSpecial Values Of Column E Into Column F And Delete Columns B to E

Mathew

"Pii via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message ...
I have a bunch of social security numbers for employees in the following
format. We are exporting this report to the tax office and they do not
accept hyphens in the ss numbers. We have over 1000 numbers and I don't
want to do it by hand. Thanks in advance

123-456-7890

Need it to look like
1234567890

FYI, after the global Find/Replace (as that's the easiest way to do it) you
should know that Excel has a (Special) Format for SSN.

Ctrl + 1 | Number (tab) | Special (left) | Social Security Number (right)

It's much like a custom fomat of ..

000"-"00"-"0000

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Regards,
Zack Barresse, aka firefytr


"Pii via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
...
I have a bunch of social security numbers for employees in the following
format. We are exporting this report to the tax office and they do not
accept hyphens in the ss numbers. We have over 1000 numbers and I don't
want to do it by hand. Thanks in advance

123-456-7890

Need it to look like
1234567890