While you could use FIND to find the + sign and concatenate 100 times the
part to the left of the + sign and add it to the part on the right of the +
sign, this formula is much easier and it accomplishes the same end result...

=--SUBSTITUTE(cell containing the station #,"+","")

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Jim Olyniec" wrote in message ...
Here is what I did in Excel. I entered the station # in one of my
columns. Then in the next column I converted it to a number for
additional calculations I did. The conversation uses the text formula
function to select the full station to the left of the "+" and multiply it
by 100 and then add the 2 far right numbers.

Left(cell containing the station #,1)+Right(cell containing the station
#,2).

The only oddity is that when the stations start with 2 digits, the formula
needs to have the "1" changed to "2" and when it has 3 digits, it will
have to be "3".

Jim