how to make search and replace as text and not a number

i have a cell with the following info in it:

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when i do a search and replace of "-" to make it show as 01101, however excel makes it a number and it formats it this way: 1101.

how can i strip the code of the dash but preserve the leading zero? looking for a vba solution.

thoughts anyone?

thanks jiejenn, that did the trick