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I have a table of data in which every cell has the suffix "mm" in it. How can
I create a chart with this data and get excel to ignore the letters. I
thought it would do it automatically but it doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas gratefully recieved!!!

Thanks in advance

Steve
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Barb Reinhardt
 
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I'd create another column for the values with MM in them. I'm assuming
that mm is at the end of each with this example.

=MID(A1,1,LEN(A1)-2)

This will have an error if the length is 2 or less or MM is not the last two
characters.

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I have a table of data in which every cell has the suffix "mm" in it. How

can
I create a chart with this data and get excel to ignore the letters. I
thought it would do it automatically but it doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas gratefully recieved!!!

Thanks in advance

Steve



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Jon Peltier
 
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Steve -

Get rid of the spurious characters. Use a custom number format like 0" mm" or
0.00" mm" which shows the number with the suffix but doesn't make the suffix part of
the value of the cell.

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I have a table of data in which every cell has the suffix "mm" in it. How can
I create a chart with this data and get excel to ignore the letters. I
thought it would do it automatically but it doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas gratefully recieved!!!

Thanks in advance

Steve


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