how do i remove telephone number hyphens from a list in Excel?

[Mediazoo]

I have a long list of telephone numbers in an Excel spreadsheet that i need
to remove the hyphons from. Do you have a quick formula for doing this?

[SteveG]

If the cells are formatted using the special Phone Number format

[<=9999999]###-####;(###) ###-####

and assuming there is 3 digit area code so your numbers currently look like:

(781) 555-4444

You can change the format to:

#######

This will result in 7815554444.

If you are not using an area code 555-4444 it will result in 5554444

Just select the entire column, change the cell format and they should all change.

Not sure how to do it if they were not formatted as the Special Phone Number format.


Cheers,

Steve

[CLR]

One way is to highlight the column, then do Edit > Replace > put - in the
"Replace" box and leave the "replace with" box empty, then press ReplaceAll


Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"Mediazoo" wrote:

> I have a long list of telephone numbers in an Excel spreadsheet that i need
> to remove the hyphons from. Do you have a quick formula for doing this?

[SteveG]

If not in Special Phone number format for number including area code (781-575-5555) use:

=LEFT(J14,3)&MID(J14,5,3)&RIGHT(J14,4)

If no area code then:

+LEFT(J14,3)&RIGHT(J14,4)

J14 represents the cell with the current hyphenated phone number in it.

Cheers,

Steve

[Bob Phillips]

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")

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> I have a long list of telephone numbers in an Excel spreadsheet that i
need
> to remove the hyphons from. Do you have a quick formula for doing this?