Explanation
The SUBSTITUTE function is full automatic. All you need to do is supply "old text" and "new text". SUBSTITUTE will replace every instance of the old text with the new text.
If you need to perform more than one replacement at the same time, you'll need to nest multiple SUBSTITUTE functions. See the "clean telephone numbers" example linked below.
If you need to replace a character at a specific location, see the REPLACE function.
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Clean and reformat telephone numbers
The formula runs from the inside out, with each SUBSTITUTE removing one character. The inner most SUBSTITUTE removes the left parentheses, and the result is handed to the next SUBSTITUTE, which removes the right parentheses, and so on. Whenever you use the SUBSTITUTE function, the result will be...
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SUBSTITUTE Function
The Excel SUBSTITUTE function replaces text in a given string by matching. For example =SUBSTITUTE("952-455-7865","-","") returns "9524557865"; the dash is stripped. SUBSTITUTE is case-sensitive and does not support wildcards.
