I have found that when I import information into Excel 2003, Hyphens are
not converted to a longer type symbol (almost like 2 hypen widths).
I've seen it in Microsoft Access 2003 also. How can I get hyphens to
remain as hyphens. For example, if I type a hyphen it shows up as -.
But here's a copy of what gets imported —. as you can see it's wider.
This gets annoying especially when I use Access and what to type in
something for a query. Can you help me?


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<as you can see it's wider

No. Both are ASCII 45

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I have found that when I import information into Excel 2003, Hyphens are
not converted to a longer type symbol (almost like 2 hypen widths).
I've seen it in Microsoft Access 2003 also. How can I get hyphens to
remain as hyphens. For example, if I type a hyphen it shows up as -.
But here's a copy of what gets imported -. as you can see it's wider.
This gets annoying especially when I use Access and what to type in
something for a query. Can you help me?


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This response is from a newsgroup; your question has been (automatically) forwarded to here. I followed the link to your original
post at EXCELTIP.com and there indeed is a difference between the two hyphens. The long one is ASCII 151, the short one 45.
Sorry I can't help you any further

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<as you can see it's wider

No. Both are ASCII 45

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I have found that when I import information into Excel 2003, Hyphens are
not converted to a longer type symbol (almost like 2 hypen widths).
I've seen it in Microsoft Access 2003 also. How can I get hyphens to
remain as hyphens. For example, if I type a hyphen it shows up as -.
But here's a copy of what gets imported -. as you can see it's wider.
This gets annoying especially when I use Access and what to type in
something for a query. Can you help me?


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You could use something like this in a macro that will convert them to long
hyphens

Selection.Replace What:=Chr(45), Replacement:=Chr(151), LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False


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I have found that when I import information into Excel 2003, Hyphens are
not converted to a longer type symbol (almost like 2 hypen widths).
I've seen it in Microsoft Access 2003 also. How can I get hyphens to
remain as hyphens. For example, if I type a hyphen it shows up as -.
But here's a copy of what gets imported -. as you can see it's wider.
This gets annoying especially when I use Access and what to type in
something for a query. Can you help me?


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