Adding Numbers Surrounded by Text and Special Characters?

[Forever_EX]

In Column A i have a list of ingredients by percentage:

100% honey
98% sugar, 2% water
50% sugar, 40% flour
(going on like that for hundreds of rows)

Is there an easy way (formula) that I can have column B return only the numbers from A, added together for a total?

For example column B would return:
100
100
90

Basically, skip over text and then add numbers together.

Thank you for your help!

 

[Rick Rothstein]

Here is a UDF (user defined function) that you can use...

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	[td]Function AddNumbers(ByVal S As String) As Double
  Dim X As Long
  For X = 1 To Len(S)
    If Mid(S, X, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then Mid(S, X) = " "
  Next
  AddNumbers = Evaluate(Replace(Application.Trim(S), " ", "+"))
End Function[/td]
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HOW TO INSTALL UDFs
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If you are new to UDFs, they are easy to install and use. To install it, simply press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its menu bar, then copy/paste the above code into the code window that just opened up. That's it.... you are done. You can now use AddNumbers just like it was a built-in Excel function. For example,

=AddNumbers(A1)

If you are using XL2007 or above, make sure you save your file as an "Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (*.xlsm) and answer the "do you want to enable macros" question as "yes" or "OK" (depending on the button label for your version of Excel) the next time you open your workbook.

 

[Forever_EX]

Wow! Thank you so much! I tried it and it worked beautifully. I will definitely be checking out your "mini" blog as I learn more about Excel.