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Default convert string to number

Just multiply it by 1 (or add zero) as part of your formula:

=1*MID(A1,3,2)

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Nov 1, 9:44 pm, "Jeff Klein" <jklein@nospam wrote:
I am extracting part of a string using Mid() and I need to convert this to
number format. Any ideas?