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Deleting characters that are not numbers
I have a column of 4000 phone numbers that are entered in several different ways. Such as. (222) 222-2222 (222)222-2222 222-222-2222 222 222 2222 2222222222 I have set up a helper sheet for converting data and need to make sure they all all converted to a format of: 2222222222 How do I write a formula to remove the colons, spaces, and dashes -- jermsalerms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jermsalerms's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30167 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=500784 |
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Deleting characters that are not numbers
Record a macro when you select the column
edit|replace ( with nothing ) with nothing - with nothing space with nothing And maybe continue recording when you change the number format. then stop recording. jermsalerms wrote: I have a column of 4000 phone numbers that are entered in several different ways. Such as. (222) 222-2222 (222)222-2222 222-222-2222 222 222 2222 2222222222 I have set up a helper sheet for converting data and need to make sure they all all converted to a format of: 2222222222 How do I write a formula to remove the colons, spaces, and dashes -- jermsalerms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jermsalerms's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30167 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=500784 -- Dave Peterson |
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Deleting characters that are not numbers
This will work:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"( ",""),")","")," ",""),"-","") -- Regards, Dave "jermsalerms" wrote: I have a column of 4000 phone numbers that are entered in several different ways. Such as. (222) 222-2222 (222)222-2222 222-222-2222 222 222 2222 2222222222 I have set up a helper sheet for converting data and need to make sure they all all converted to a format of: 2222222222 How do I write a formula to remove the colons, spaces, and dashes -- jermsalerms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jermsalerms's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30167 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=500784 |
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I went with the substitution method since I am not familiar with macros yet -- jermsalerms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jermsalerms's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30167 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=500784 |
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Deleting characters that are not numbers
The formula seems reasonable if you have to do it lots of times.
But if you only have to fix the data once, do a bunch of edit|replaces seems like it might be quicker. jermsalerms wrote: I went with the substitution method since I am not familiar with macros yet -- jermsalerms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jermsalerms's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30167 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=500784 -- Dave Peterson |
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