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In cell A1 I have the either Letter a, b or c.
I would like to give them a numerical value of 1, 2 and 3 in the
adjacent cell.
Can someone post or point me to the formula?
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Put this in b1 and drag down


=CODE(UPPER(A1))-64

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In cell A1 I have the either Letter a, b or c.
I would like to give them a numerical value of 1, 2 and 3 in the
adjacent cell.
Can someone post or point me to the formula?
Thanks


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Please don't multi-post - you have an answer elsewhere.

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On Apr 11, 5:11*pm, yakky wrote:
In cell A1 I have the either Letter a, b or c.
I would like to give them a numerical value of 1, 2 and 3 in the
adjacent cell.
Can someone post or point me to the formula?
Thanks


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Pete,

I agree but can't see the other post in this case. Where?

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Please don't multi-post - you have an answer elsewhere.

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On Apr 11, 5:11 pm, yakky wrote:
In cell A1 I have the either Letter a, b or c.
I would like to give them a numerical value of 1, 2 and 3 in the
adjacent cell.
Can someone post or point me to the formula?
Thanks



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