changing non-numbers to numbers

[L.LEE]

Hi

If the cells contains "12 345" (without the colons but with the space in between) and "24,0" (without the colons but with the comma), is there a way to convert them both to numbers so that calculations may be done on them?

thanks

LL

[Pete_UK]

You would need to put the numbers into two separate cells, i.e. 12 in one cell and 345 in another cell. You could do this using Data | Text-to-Columns, using space as the delimiter. Similar for the other pair of numbers, but using comma as the delimiter.

Hope this helps.

Pete

[Marcol]

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[L.LEE]

Hi, spreadsheet attached.

[Marcol]

Try this, drag/fill down.

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[Pete_UK]

You can use this formula:

=--SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",""),",",".")

then copy down.

Hope this helps.

Pete

[L.LEE]

Thanks everyone. It works!