Treble vs Bass Clef

I'm a little confused when it comes to the "staff symbols". I get the jest of it but when trying to do one thing, I'm stumped! If you have one staff that you want to play, and it happens to show up as written in the base clef. The notes are all way above the bass clef and probably should have not been written like that, but it was. So I want to play those exact notes, but I want it in a more "readable" place, so I want to have those same notes show up in the treble clef format and not the bass clef format...........how is this done? Or can it be done?
thanks in advance,
hb