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Default using mid find to either extract a number with 2 decimals or exclude FROM A STRING

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:02:36 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld wrote:

Amount
=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",REPT(" ",99)),99))


And to make that a numeric value and not a text value, precede with a double unary

=--TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",REPT(" ",99)),99))