Hi,

You can use the sum function as follows to solve your problem:

=SUM((VALUE(LEFT(A1,1))),VALUE(LEFT(A2,1)))

cell a1 -- 5 - oranges
cell a2 -- 6 - Grapes

Hope this will clear your doubt.

Regards,
Soundar.

" 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