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 this "clean telephone numbers" formula for an example.
If you need to replace a character at a specific location, see the REPLACE function.
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Clean and reformat telephone numbers
In this example, the goal is to clean up telephone numbers with inconsistent formatting and then reformat the numbers in the same way. In practice, this means we need to start by removing the extra non-numeric characters, including spaces, dashes, periods, and parentheses. Once these characters are...
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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....
