Floating negative sign

JV63

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Hi. A user has data that looks like below for example:

00000-174
0000-1234
7890

How can I remove the leading zero, leave the negative sign and make that a true negative number while leaving the positives as is?

I was able to convert the negative using:

=VALUE(RIGHT(F1,LEN(F1)-FIND("0-",F1)))

But for the positives I get #VALUE.

Thanks
 

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How about
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),A2,REPLACE(A2,1,FIND("-",A2)-1,"")*1)
 
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