Try this one:

=12*LEFT(A1, FIND(CHAR(39),A1)-1)+TEXT(MID(A1, 1+FIND("-", A1),
LEN(A1)-FIND("-",A1)),"General")

Had to change the Char(39)'s in Find to "-"

Regards,
Fred.

"Brian 1" wrote in message
...
I put the formula in and it seems to subtract the inches and fraction from
the feet.

4'-7 1/4 comes out as 40.75. ????
close but no cigar.


"JoeU2004" wrote:

"Brian 1" <Brian wrote:
I have feet and inches in a cell as text and want it to be inches
as a decimal. Before (2"-4 1/2") after (28.5)

Does the following suit your needs (assumes the text form is in A1):

=12*LEFT(A1, FIND(CHAR(39),A1)-1)
+TEXT(MID(A1, 1+FIND(CHAR(39), A1), LEN(A1)-FIND(CHAR(39),A1)-1),
"General")

You can use General or any numeric format for the cell.

Instead of CHAR(39), you could write "'", which is an apostrophe between
double-quotes. (Hard to read!)

Note: That assumes you meant to write 2' 4 1/2", not literally 2"-4
1/2".
If you truly meant the latter (surprise!), the following should do the
trick:

=12*LEFT(A1, FIND(CHAR(34),A1)-1)
+TEXT(MID(A1, 1+FIND("-",A1), LEN(A1)-FIND("-",A1)-1), "General")

where CHAR(34) is the ASCII code for double-quote.


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"Brian 1" <Brian wrote in message
...
I have feet and inches in a cell as text and want it to be inches as a
decimal.
Before (2"-4 1/2") after (28.5)
I would like to us a formula or number type to convert.