How to Divide a Number With “Less Than” Sign?
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Excel Tips Question:
Please help me to do a calculation from number of conversions from ug –> mg in a column. Many of the numbers that I need to convert have a “less than” sign… ie <1 should convert to <0.001
Excel Tips Answer:
Well, a number with a < sign is not a valid number in Excel, it is a character. and if you are trying to convert it as in your title the result will not be a number either. To do what you subject line asks probably would require a VBA macro.
Here is a excel vba macro you could run against a select range of cell to convert them (only if the leading character is < )
Sub ConvertIt()
Dim cell As Range
Dim x As Integer
Dim First As Double
Dim Second As Double
For Each cell In Selection
If Left(cell, 1) = “<” Then
x = InStr(1, cell, “/”)
First = Mid(cell, 2, 1)
Second = Mid(cell, x + 1, 10)
cell = “<” & First / Second
End If
Next cell
End Sub
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2 Comments on How to Divide a Number With “Less Than” Sign?
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Maxx32 on
Thu, 22nd Oct 2009 10:23 am
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Sanjay on
Thu, 11th Mar 2010 3:35 pm
Besides the paper though, nothing of use can be bought
i want to calculate the age of a employee
example
birth date = 01/03/1972
today = 30/04/2010
age = 38years , 01 months & 29 days
date= dd/mm/yyyy
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