Phone numbers

[RichardLP]

My source workbook has a customer list with phone numbers.

I am writing a VBA program in another workbook to look up these phone numbers. My problem is that the phone numbers were keyed in by different people in different formats (234) 567-7890 and 234-567-7890 and even 234 567-7890.

I need to convert these to just a 10 digit string 2345677890 regardless of the original format. I found some code that with read each character and determine if it is a number, but I wanted to know if there was something less complicated.

Thank you.

[queuesef]

you could do a search and replace of the characters ( "(", ")", "-", " ") with nothing...make it a text field! ( I use Ctrl+H ~ shortcut key)

[mohadin]

Hi
what about

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You Data in A2 down

[mc84excel]

This can be done. The question is what do you want done if the input can not be converted to a 10 digit string? If you strip out non-numeric characters and the result is not equal to 10 digits, do you want to return the original input? (to avoid risk of losing data) or to return null? (prefer to lose any input if it doesn't meet desired output criteria)

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Above is a function to check any string input and return a 10 digit numeric string.

If it is unable to convert, it will return the original input.

(If you would prefer not to return data on fail, change the

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[bakerman2]

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[AliGW]

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