Using LEFT Function with Countif

Dean Arvan

Hello,

I receive a data from other parties that is formatted inconsistently. The column of interest is labeled Target Months and ranges from things like "36 Mo.", "12 mo" and "1Mo" etc. I am only interested in the number since I know it is referring to months. Using the LEFT function I can strip out the 36 and 12, however doing operations such as trying to add the cells results in "3612" instead of 48.

They are being treated as text and I need them treated as a number. How can I ensure they are treated as numbers?

RossL

@Dean Arvan

If you put the Left function inside a Value function the it will convert the text to a number.

RossL

@Dean Arvan

If you put the Left function inside a Value function the it will convert the text to a number.