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How do you concatenate numbers in the customised form

Hi Experts

I don't know if it is me being senseless, probably is, but I would like to concatenate two columns.

In cell C2 I have a Number thus:

9800158671 0001

I want to remove the BLANK space and make it one number thus 98001586710001

First I split using "TEXT TO COLUMNS" and ended up with
9800158671 in CELL D2 and a single 1 in CELL E2
I then customised CELL E2 to make it a four digit number 0001
Then I concantenated CELL D2 & CELL E2 and ended up with 98001586711

I realise that CONCATENATION is "textual" but how can I end up with the desired result please.
Thanks in advance.
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Tezza
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Hello,

Instead of the text to columns and concatenation and all that, you could use

=SUBSTITUTE(C2," ","")

Copy down, then copy the results and use Paste Special > Values into a different column or into the original formula cells.

cheers, teylyn
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Hi teylyn

Spot On, thanks for that it worked a treat. Top Marks.

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Tezza
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thank you very much, a quick and accurate answer.
Thanks for the grade, Tezza!