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Default How to change "xxx CR" and "y,yyy DB" to "+xxx" and "-yyyy"

With your values in column A, In B1 enter:

=--LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-3) and copy down
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200829


"vud i" wrote:

I have copied a printed report to Excel. For further calculations, I need to
change the credit and debit notations to positive and negative numbers or
numerical text. To do this, one must ... ???