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How do I correct the LEN of a number....CLEAN and TRIM don't resolve|General Excel Questions & Answers|Excel Forum|My Online Training Hub

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How do I correct the LEN of a number....CLEAN and TRIM don't resolve
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Hi Mynda, its me again....sad face......but smilie face that i have you. Hope you are keeping safe in the pandemic.

I haven't encountered this one in a while....its perplexing me....please help.

I use VLOOKUP a lot but sometimes I am stumped because of errors like these.

 

Thanks much. 

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Hi Grace,

Did you intend to attach a file? Be sure to click the Start Upload button after selecting your file.

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ooops....thought i did.

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Hi Grace,

The problem is the numbers in sheet2 (3) are text, and the numbers in Sheet2 (2) are numbers. You can tell the numbers in sheet 2 (3) are text because when you select cells B12:B13 the status bar (bottom right) only shows a count, whereas if they were numbers, like in Sheet2 (2) they also show a sum.

You either need to convert the Sheet2 (2) values to text or the Sheet2 (3) to numbers. You can use Text to Columns (data tab) to fix them if it's a one off task, or Power Query. 

Hope that points you in the right direction.

Mynda

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There are additional Unicode characters in your 'numbers'. Sometimes there is a char 8237 at the start and there appears to always be a char 8236 at the end. CLEAN doesn't understand those so it fails to remove them. You could add a function like this to a new module in your workbook:

Function CleanNonNumeric(ByVal dataIn As String)
' removes anything that is not a number, period or - sign from text
Dim n As Long
For n = 1 To Len(dataIn)
Select Case AscW(Mid$(dataIn, n, 1))
Case 45, 46, 48 To 57
CleanNonNumeric = CleanNonNumeric & Mid$(dataIn, n, 1)
Case Else
' ignore
End Select
Next n
End Function

and then the formula in B12 becomes:

=CleanNonNumeric(A12)+0

The +0 is to convert the result to an actual number rather than text.

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Thank you very much Mynda and Velouria.......now works.

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