"twilkers" wrote:
hex2dec works for a 10 digit but for anything less the number appears to
be
padded with zeros and doesn't come out negative as it should. Example,
0xFFE6 comes out 65510 instead of -26(correct)

One way:

=HEX2DEC(A1) - 65536*AND(LEN(A1)=4,HEX2DEC(LEFT(A1,1))=8)


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"twilkers" wrote in message
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I need to convert a list of 16 bit hex values to decimal. The list
contains
both positive and negative numbers.

hex2dec works for a 10 digit but for anything less the number appears to
be
padded with zeros and doesn't come out negative as it should. Example,
0xFFE6 comes out 65510 instead of -26(correct)

Is there a fix for this? The list is very long.

thanks,
tim