I'm importing electricity price data. They come as text in a two column table. The first column is the time interval to which a price applies, and the second, the price in the form 12.34p/kWh. I need the price information in a row that I can copy and paste into a table of the prices for each day. Initially I manually deleted the letters to just leave the digits in the column, copied the resulting column of prices, and pasted special with transpose ticked into a vacant row. So far so good. To automate part of the process I then tried text functions to remove the p/kWh part and put the results into the next column. However although the result looks the same as doing it manually, when I copy and transpose the results into a row, all I get are blank cells. What is going wrong? I assume it's something to do with the data being text format not number. If so, why does the manual delete method work and text functions don't? If it is a text / number issue, is it possible to convert the text number into number format? I've searched Help and tried everything that I can think of, starting with making the destination column number format but so far nothing has worked, so I'm back to manual delete unless anyone out there has a solution.
Statistics: Posted by CrankyEngineer — Mon Oct 14, 2024 11:22 pm