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I've received a spreadsheet with entries in one column in this format
"12/345". This indicates 12 units of 345 total. I want to move the
information on the right side of the "/" to a new column so I can get totals
of each value, but the number of digits will vary. Is there still a way to
use the RIGHT function specifying all characters to the right of "/"?

Maybe a formula could be written to Sum the values on the left of the "/"
and Sum the values on the right of the "/" and display the result as
100/1000, but I wouldn't know how to do that, either.

Thanks for your thoughts
Ivor


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Ron de Bruin
 
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Try this Ivor

=--MID(A1, FIND("/", A1)+1, 255)



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"Ivor Williams" wrote in message news:Fwfue.72041$El.27133@pd7tw1no...
I've received a spreadsheet with entries in one column in this format "12/345". This indicates 12 units of 345 total. I want to
move the information on the right side of the "/" to a new column so I can get totals of each value, but the number of digits will
vary. Is there still a way to use the RIGHT function specifying all characters to the right of "/"?

Maybe a formula could be written to Sum the values on the left of the "/" and Sum the values on the right of the "/" and display
the result as 100/1000, but I wouldn't know how to do that, either.

Thanks for your thoughts
Ivor



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Gord Dibben
 
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Ivor

How about DataText to Columns with / as a delimiter and break into two
columns?


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:32:53 GMT, "Ivor Williams"
wrote:

I've received a spreadsheet with entries in one column in this format
"12/345". This indicates 12 units of 345 total. I want to move the
information on the right side of the "/" to a new column so I can get totals
of each value, but the number of digits will vary. Is there still a way to
use the RIGHT function specifying all characters to the right of "/"?

Maybe a formula could be written to Sum the values on the left of the "/"
and Sum the values on the right of the "/" and display the result as
100/1000, but I wouldn't know how to do that, either.

Thanks for your thoughts
Ivor


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