In MS Excel (2007) I have a very long column with 10 digit numbers that need
to be changed to a telephone number with dashes. Can anyone help?

Use a custom number format of 000-000-0000

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"hmsteiner" wrote in message
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In MS Excel (2007) I have a very long column with 10 digit numbers that
need
to be changed to a telephone number with dashes. Can anyone help?

"hmsteiner" wrote:
Subject: Help converting a 10 digit number 2223334444 to 222-333-4444
In MS Excel (2007) I have a very long column with
10 digit numbers that need to be changed to a
telephone number with dashes.

If you just want to change the appearance, try a Custom format like
000-000-0000.

If you want to change the cell contents to text, try enter
=TEXT(A1,"000-000-0000") into some cell, copy, and paste-special-value back
to A1.

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