Using IF and LEN formula for a cell

[JackyGrealish]

Hi,

I work at a energy company where I need to paste value of system sizes, for eg. 8.73MW . I used formula:

=LEFT(G5,LEN(G5)-2) to remove the 'MW'. And used IF to see if value is below 30, multiply the value by 1000 to basically change MW to kW. IF(G7<30,G7*1000,G7). Dont mind about the cell numbers as I randomly took from my excel sheet. Is there a way where I can combine both IF and LEN formula such that when I paste 8.73MW, it automatically removes MW and multiply it by 1000?

Thanks!

[#2]

=SUBSTITUTE(G5;"MW";"000")*1
Mind, that only works if people don't use space. I might observe that it is poor style to put the unit measure into the same field as the quantity. Better split across two cells.

[#3]

You could also try =LAMBDA(v;LET(aUnit;RIGHT(v;2);Scalar;LOOKUP(aUnit;{"kW";"MW"};{1;1000});SUBSTITUTE(v;aUnit;"")*Scalar))(G5)

[#4]

Hi @ecovonrein , I think I missed out something on what I meant in the chat above. The values taken can also be in kW. So for some instances can be for e.g. 4.7MW or can also be 880kW. But I want to create it such that any value M or k is converted to kW only. So if 4.7MW becomes 4700kW while 880kW remains as it is.

[#5]

Yes? My suggestions do that. Unless you actually want the letter "kW" in the result, in which case you still need to append them. But the answers are in kW.

[#6 · Accepted solution]

@JackyGrealish 

As variant

=LEFT( A1, LEN(A1) - 2)*IF(RIGHT(A1,2) = "MW", 1000, 1)

[#7]

Thanks for this!

[#8]

@JackyGrealish , you are welcome