It looks like my first suggestion was an improper use of the ISNUMBER
function. This seems to work:

=IF(ISERROR(LEFT(A1,1)*5),0,LEFT(A1,1)*5)


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Hope that helps.

Vergel Adriano


"Vergel Adriano" wrote:

Hi,

If the first character in A1 is numeric, multiply it by 5, otherwise show 0:

=IF(ISNUMBER(LEFT(A1,1)), LEFT(A1,1), 0)*5


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Hope that helps.

Vergel Adriano


"Wanna Learn" wrote:

Hello
example : cell a1 reads " 1B- Failure to follow customer instructions"
( 1B is the error code and the rest is the desciption of the error)

now in column F1 I want to give this error a value. every error that
starts with a 1 has a value of 5, if the error starts with a 2 is has a
value of 10 , if the error starts with 3 has a value 15. etc How can I do
this? thanks