Removal of thousands seperator

I have downloaded data with an open space as thousands seperator, an example
is a number like 2 098,67. Excel will not recognize this as a number. How can
I remove this thousands seperator so that the number becomes 2098,67? I need
to do this to use the data in another program.

I have tried the TRIM function and the replace function, but the space is
still there and the cells aren't recognized as numbers.

Try this in another column

=SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","")+0

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HTH

RP
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"finney78" <finney78@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9D022AC-D981-4AFA-9650-8F1432FCCA0E@microsoft.com...
> I have downloaded data with an open space as thousands seperator, an
example
> is a number like 2 098,67. Excel will not recognize this as a number. How
can
> I remove this thousands seperator so that the number becomes 2098,67? I
need
> to do this to use the data in another program.
>
> I have tried the TRIM function and the replace function, but the space is
> still there and the cells aren't recognized as numbers.
>

edit-replace
against find what
~(space)
replace with
(leave it blank)
click <replace all>
try this

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finney78 <finney78@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9D022AC-D981-4AFA-9650-8F1432FCCA0E@microsoft.com...
> I have downloaded data with an open space as thousands seperator, an
example
> is a number like 2 098,67. Excel will not recognize this as a number. How
can
> I remove this thousands seperator so that the number becomes 2098,67? I
need
> to do this to use the data in another program.
>
> I have tried the TRIM function and the replace function, but the space is
> still there and the cells aren't recognized as numbers.
>