Excel Question regarding accounting coding

[jerrymoon1]

Every month the locations that I am responsible for send in their list of cost to accrue. Unfortunately they do not put the coding correctly (its been an uphill battle trying to get them to do it right).

The way they send the coding is 7300.395.55290.5 and it should be 7300395.55290.5

The last digit is optional, so it could also come as 7300.395.55290 and should be 7300395.55290

Any way to have this done with a formula? Unfortunately there are sometimes over 50 lines of data. Thanks.

 

[Jonmo1]

are you basically just wanting to remove the 1st Period???

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","",1)

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hi

Give this a try:

=SUBSTITUTE(TEXT(LEFT(TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0,"000000000000\0"),13)+0,"0000000\.00000\.0"),".0","")

EDIT: Nope, mine will fail if there are other instances of .0 in the acct code. A longer and more messy formula could be:

=IF(RIGHT(TEXT(LEFT(TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0,"000000000000\0"),13)+0,"0000000\.00000\.0"),2)=".0",TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0,"0000000\.00000"),TEXT(LEFT(TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0,"000000000000\0"),13)+0,"0000000\.00000\.0"))

Presumably there is a chance that the acct code comes thru correctly, so the formula needs to allow for this.

 

[jerrymoon1]

This works perfectly. Thanks.

 

[DeltaBlue]

This formula worked for me with your examples.

=IF(FIND(".",A1,1)>7,A1,SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","",1))

Richard's looks like it'll likely work no matter how they send the data.