That is a double unary. The RIGHT function will return a string, so a single
unary will convert it to a number, but a negative number, so the second
reverts it back to positive.

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Bob Phillips

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"nastech" wrote in message
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Hi, thanks, will give that a try, was wondering what the double negative /
2
minus signs do? thanks

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try this

=AND(EXACT(LEFT(T9),"x"),--RIGHT(T9,LEN(T9)-1)=$BJ$6/10)

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Bob Phillips

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"nastech" wrote in message
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trying to make an equation for conditional format...?? where same
cell
has
x2, need to test for Exact/ small "x",

is this close, can't quite get: (where bj6 is 20)
=T9=(EXACT(LEFT(T9,1),"x")&$BJ$6/10) comes up false for "x2",
should be
true.

=EXACT(LEFT(T9,1),"x")&$BJ$6/10 gets a true2

thanks.