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Default I want a formula to ignore text eg 5mts * 5 ignoring the mts any .

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Two ways for the example posted:

You could try something like this:
=LEFT(I11,1)*I12
If 5mts is in I11 and 5 is in I12

You may also want to consider using a Custom Number format that would put
the mts into the cell instead of typing it manually.
Something like:
General"mts"

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