I have used mid formula in excel 2003 to extract text from another excel cell. I now want to use the resultant value in a lookup formula - how do i get the lookup formula to use the Value derievd from the previous formula. at the moment it doesn't seem to be able to.
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Mid extracts text, you must convert it to a number, try
=VALUE(MID(...))
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dear all my current formula is =MID(A3,8,5) it extracts the text e.g IDA68 to cell B2 from the middle of text string which is a file number - that file number has an associated finacial value for example 20000. so i have a list on sheet 2 (=VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$27,2,FALSE) that is looking up the file number and posting the relevant file value against the relevant file reference– total newbieDec 10, 2009 at 13:15
Is the result a number? If so, use the Value function:
Value(Mid(A1, 3, 5))
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dear all my current formula is =MID(A3,8,5) it extracts the text e.g IDA68 to cell B2 from the middle of text string which is a file number - that file number has an associated finacial value for example 20000. so i have a list on sheet 2 (=VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$27,2,FALSE) that is looking up the file number and posting the relevant file value against the relevant file number– total newbieDec 10, 2009 at 13:08
Hi guys i found out i was out by one characther on the mid formula and so was adding a space in front of the file reference so it actually is working now with no need for further adjustments - thanks for your time anyway....
If you're working with a lot of data, after doing the Mid calculations in one column, you could create a new column and do a paste special to paste only the values into the new column.