If the values need to be numeric, you may want to do this to convert back to
numbers.

=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)*1

HTH
Regards,
Howard

"Lram" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet containing weather data - the cells containing
windspeed and wind direction contain a data flag in addition to the
numeric value, example 90S for wind direction and 2.1S for wind speed.
I wish to get rid of the alpha character so I can work with the numeric
values.

How do I parse each cell to remove the alpha character(s)?


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