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Stripping dashes from a number
Hello All,
I am working with SS #'s that are imported into an excel spreadsheet from a delimited text file. The SS #'s in the text file have dashes that I need to strip. I used the find\replace method in a macro to do this but the problem I run into is that it removes the leading zero in certain SS #'s that have a zero as the first number. I tried changing the cell format to text before stripping the dashes but that did not work. Any suggestions on how I can remove the dashes and keep the leading zeros? Thanks, Rohit Thomas |
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Stripping dashes from a number
Can you do the edit|replace and then apply a custom number format: 000000000
Rohit Thomas wrote: Hello All, I am working with SS #'s that are imported into an excel spreadsheet from a delimited text file. The SS #'s in the text file have dashes that I need to strip. I used the find\replace method in a macro to do this but the problem I run into is that it removes the leading zero in certain SS #'s that have a zero as the first number. I tried changing the cell format to text before stripping the dashes but that did not work. Any suggestions on how I can remove the dashes and keep the leading zeros? Thanks, Rohit Thomas -- Dave Peterson |
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