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Grace Miller
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April 20, 2021 - 10:28 am
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Good day Mynda, its me again...sad face

I download reports from Oracle Fusion a lot and the date format as well as 'number' is always giving trouble to use with Vlookup for other data.

Can you place a formula in the 2 columns highlighted in orange to clean and correct my data please.

Thanks much

Grace

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Hi Grace,

The date format is easy, just format it with a custom number format dd-mmm-yy.

The Number column is more complicated. There is a non printing character before and after the number you see in the cell. If you =LEN(B6) you'll see it returns 8, but there are only 6 numbers visible in the cell.

I loaded the table to Power Query and split the column by number of characters, once by 1 from the beginning and once by 1 from the end and then I was able to convert the data type to whole number and then delete the columns split out that contain the non-printing characters. See file attached.

Mynda

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Hi Mynda,

Thank you for your very quick response....but i need a fix without using power query. Is there a formula that i can use to convert everytime i have to use a similar report....which is quite often?

The date format im fine with.

 

Thank you

Grace

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You can use this formula:

=VALUE(MID(B3,2,LEN(B3)-2))

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