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convert web copied text to numbers
I copied a website and pasted into excel. I need a formula to convert the
text to numbers. Here are some examples, they contain leading 0"s, trailing 0's, "$" "," and "." $9,405.98 $9,457.19 $14,420.92 $5,077.31 Thanks for any help -- Jim C |
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convert web copied text to numbers
If the text is in A1, then put this in B1:
=VALUE(A1) "Jim C" wrote in message ... I copied a website and pasted into excel. I need a formula to convert the text to numbers. Here are some examples, they contain leading 0"s, trailing 0's, "$" "," and "." $9,405.98 $9,457.19 $14,420.92 $5,077.31 Thanks for any help -- Jim C |
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convert web copied text to numbers
If he copied from the web I suspect he might have invisible html characters
(CHAR(160) Then VALUE won't work, I would use Dave McRitchie's trimall macro found here http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall will remove all extra characters including CHAR(160) using a formula this might work =--TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160),"")) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Zone" wrote in message ... If the text is in A1, then put this in B1: =VALUE(A1) "Jim C" wrote in message ... I copied a website and pasted into excel. I need a formula to convert the text to numbers. Here are some examples, they contain leading 0"s, trailing 0's, "$" "," and "." $9,405.98 $9,457.19 $14,420.92 $5,077.31 Thanks for any help -- Jim C |
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convert web copied text to numbers
The formula worked great: =--TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160),""))
Thank you. -- Jim C "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: If he copied from the web I suspect he might have invisible html characters (CHAR(160) Then VALUE won't work, I would use Dave McRitchie's trimall macro found here http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall will remove all extra characters including CHAR(160) using a formula this might work =--TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160),"")) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Zone" wrote in message ... If the text is in A1, then put this in B1: =VALUE(A1) "Jim C" wrote in message ... I copied a website and pasted into excel. I need a formula to convert the text to numbers. Here are some examples, they contain leading 0"s, trailing 0's, "$" "," and "." $9,405.98 $9,457.19 $14,420.92 $5,077.31 Thanks for any help -- Jim C |
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