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JoeCavasin
Mar 26, 2019Copper Contributor
Addition resulting in 0 after using formula to remove alpha characters
Need assistance if possible.
I have a data set that is exported as digits, preceded by a letter, in this case F. This export format is hard wired into the program, so the alpha/numeric combo will remain in the dataset with every export and doesn't change letters or spacing, etc. I can already utilize either TRIM or RIGHT formulas to remove the preceding letter, and leave the raw numbers in a set of helper columns. However, I need to add these items together once trimmed of alpha characters and nothing has been able to return a result other than an error (0, #Value or #Error). Anyone have any thoughts? attached a basic sample of this set up for reference
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- TwifooSilver ContributorIf the addends are in F2:I2, the formula in J2 is:
=SUMPRODUCT(—F2:I2)
The double negatives before the range converts the values therein to numbers.