Niek

Brilliant, I tried that, and it is actually =Cell("format",A1), but that is
perfect, many thanks.

"Niek Otten" wrote:

You can also test for % format using =CELL(A1,"format")
If the result starts with a P it is formatted as %

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Allan H" <Allan wrote in message ...
|I have a worksheet in excel where a single column which can be up to 1000
| lines long contains a mixture of numbers and percentages. Depending on
| whether the figure in the column is a number or a percentage, I need to
| multiply the figure by either 1 or 100. Sounds simple, but I cant find any
| way to make excel recognise is it a real number, or is it a percentage. You
| dont seem to be able to look for the % sign, cant use ISNUMBER because both
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