emvella

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Office Version
  1. 2013
Platform
  1. Windows
Hi,

How can I paste numbers with dash in between like the ones below and it calculates the total 37? In other words I want a formula that it removes the dash and calculate all the numbers together 2+2+4+2+2 etc....

2-2
4-2
2-0
1-2
1-1
2-3
6-0
3-1
3-2
___
37

Thanks
 

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then:

A
B
C
D
E
1
2-2
2​
2​
4​
=SUM(B1:C1)
2
4-2
4​
2​
6​
3
2-0
2​
0​
2​
4
1-2
1​
2​
3​
5
1-1
1​
1​
2​
6
2-3
2​
3​
5​
7
6-0
6​
0​
6​
8
3-1
3​
1​
4​
9
3-2
3​
2​
5​
10
37​
=SUM(D1:D9)
 
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Hi,

If you have your range in cells A1:A9 and they are formatted as text, you can use the following:
=SUM(VALUE(LEFT(A1:A9,1)),VALUE(RIGHT(A1:A9,1)))
Enter it using Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Hope it helps!
 
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.. or with standard entry
=SUMPRODUCT(LEFT(A1:A9,FIND("-",A1:A9)-1)+REPLACE(A1:A9,1,FIND("-",A1:A9),""))

If we knew they were always single digits then it reduces to
=SUMPRODUCT(LEFT(A1:A9)+RIGHT(A1:A9))
 
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