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Arzock
Mar 31, 2020Copper Contributor
Find and replace won't replace a parenthesis by nothing without changing the cell format
Hello everyone, I'm using the "find and replace" feature in excel 365 and I'd like to replace a parenthesis by nothing, in order to get rid of it. But everytime I try to do that, the cell format c...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Mar 31, 2020Platinum Contributor
The semicolon make Excel think you are entering a time. Try this:
=LEFT(<cell>,LEN(<cell>)-1)
.... and then copy /paste values.