Hi,

I have a field with 9 digits. I used the RIGHT formula to extract 5 numbers
from it. Now I also need to convert it to number (perhaps the VALUE). How can
I join those two formulas?

Example: 310009148 09148 wrong. i need 9148
310010542 10542 10452. ok.

Hope someone can help me.
Thanks,
Barbara

Excel needs to be prompted to coerce the "numeric text" into a number.
The standard convention for doing that is the double-minus....(see below)

With
A1: 310009148

Try this
B1: =--RIGHT(A1,5)



Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Barbara" wrote:

Hi,

I have a field with 9 digits. I used the RIGHT formula to extract 5 numbers
from it. Now I also need to convert it to number (perhaps the VALUE). How can
I join those two formulas?

Example: 310009148 09148 wrong. i need 9148
310010542 10542 10452. ok.

Hope someone can help me.
Thanks,
Barbara

Hi Ron,
Thank you very much for your prompt answer. It worked just fine.

Barbara

"Ron Coderre" escreveu:

Excel needs to be prompted to coerce the "numeric text" into a number.
The standard convention for doing that is the double-minus....(see below)

With
A1: 310009148

Try this
B1: =--RIGHT(A1,5)



Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Barbara" wrote:

Hi,

I have a field with 9 digits. I used the RIGHT formula to extract 5 numbers
from it. Now I also need to convert it to number (perhaps the VALUE). How can
I join those two formulas?

Example: 310009148 09148 wrong. i need 9148
310010542 10542 10452. ok.

Hope someone can help me.
Thanks,
Barbara