Excel 2000. I have a column of number that import as text that I would like
to format as phone numbers. Ex: 9999999999 should appear as (999) 999-9999.
When I apply the PN format nothing happens..I'm guessing because it is text.
Any suggestions?

Thx!

to you want the final result to be text or numeric.
if numeric. in a blank cell enter 1
select it and copy
select the column to telphone numbers and paste special multiply.
If you formated the number as telephone they should now show up that way.

"longisland" wrote:

Excel 2000. I have a column of number that import as text that I would like
to format as phone numbers. Ex: 9999999999 should appear as (999) 999-9999.
When I apply the PN format nothing happens..I'm guessing because it is text.
Any suggestions?

Thx!

Thanks for your assistance!

"bj" wrote:

to you want the final result to be text or numeric.
if numeric. in a blank cell enter 1
select it and copy
select the column to telphone numbers and paste special multiply.
If you formated the number as telephone they should now show up that way.

"longisland" wrote:

Excel 2000. I have a column of number that import as text that I would like
to format as phone numbers. Ex: 9999999999 should appear as (999) 999-9999.
When I apply the PN format nothing happens..I'm guessing because it is text.
Any suggestions?

Thx!

Select your column and format as Phone Number.

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Gord Dibben Excel MVP


On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:21:03 -0700, "longisland"
wrote:

Excel 2000. I have a column of number that import as text that I would like
to format as phone numbers. Ex: 9999999999 should appear as (999) 999-9999.
When I apply the PN format nothing happens..I'm guessing because it is text.
Any suggestions?

Thx!