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Deleting portions of a cell

Posted by Craig Reger on February 08, 2001 6:41 AM

How do you delete portions of a cell. Say I want to delete the letters from a cell that contains numbers, so i can sort on the numbers.

Re: Deleting portions of a cell

Posted by Mark W. on February 08, 2001 7:01 AM

Provide some sample data.

Re: Deleting portions of a cell

Posted by Dave Hawley on February 08, 2001 10:01 PM

Hi Craig

Try using Edit>Replace and leave the replace with box blank. Or if you have leading zeros place a ' in this box.

Dave

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