Assuming your data is in column A, here's a formula you can put in B1 and
copy down to return what you want as a number..........

=(LEFT(A1,FIND(":",A1)-1))*1

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"Amca" wrote in message
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I download from a database that provides ratios in the following format "
0.95 :1" which is formatted as text. I tried to write a macro that would
delete the " :1" so I could convert the cell to a number and use it in
calculations. Every time I run the macro it changes the cell to the exact
number that was in the original cell I used when creating the macro. Does
anyone know what I am doing wrong?