Hi Ron

All too easily done.<bg
I had been playing with exactly the same formula myself, and just
getting round to the substitute, when I noticed Bob's posting.
Rather than posting another solution to the OP, I chose to try to
correct Bob's.
If I hadn't already been playing with the problem, I probably wouldn't
have noticed either error.

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Regards

Roger Govier


"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:24:55 -0000, "Roger Govier"
wrote:

Hi Ron

I don't think that would ignore the spaces, it would reduce the total
value by 32 for each space found wouldn't it?

I think you would need to use
SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","") for each occurrence of (A1) in your formula, or
add to the formula

+(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","") ))*32

I pasted in the wrong formula <sheepish grin

=SUMPRODUCT(CODE(UPPER(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""),
ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))),1)))-64)

Thanks for picking that up.


--ron