Hi Scott'

One way:

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

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Regards,
Norman



"Scott" wrote in message
...
I have a data file I'm reformatting that has all the negative numbers with
the negative sign on the right side thereby Excel sees these as text. I
used
a formula last week that converts these to the correct negative number but
seemed to have misplaced the formula.

Anyone help me with this trick?