This would work, as long as there's a space between the value on the left and
the hyphen:

=VALUE(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)))+VALUE(LEFT(A2,FIND(" ",A2,1)))
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Kevin Backmann


" wrote:

Is there anyway that I can add two cells ie.

cell 1 - (5 - Oranges)
cell 2 - (6 - Grapes)


and get a sum of 11 in the third cell...i cant just use the sum
function because of the text being in the cells