Calc • Re: An issue with using transpose

Thank you Alex1 and FJCC. Here is a copy of the contents of my table, and some further detail below which hopefully address both your questions.

A              B            C                  DTime Slot      Price        No of Characters   Stripped Price (p)00:00 - 00:30  16.98p/kWh   10                 16.9800:30 - 01:00  18.08p/kWh   10                 18.0801:00 - 01:30  17.61p/kWh   10                 17.6101:30 - 02:00  17.64p/kWh   10                 17.6402:00 - 02:30  16.56p/kWh   10                 16.5602:30 - 03:00  17.11p/kWh   10                 17.1103:00 - 03:30  16.05p/kWh   10                 16.0503:30 - 04:00  15.71p/kWh   10                 15.7104:00 - 04:30  17.2p/kWh     9                 17.204:30 - 05:00  15.66p/kWh   10                 15.6605:00 - 05:30  17.2p/kWh     9                 17.205:30 - 06:00  17.09p/kWh   10                 17.0906:00 - 06:30  18.27p/kWh   10                 18.2706:30 - 07:00  18.52p/kWh   10                 18.52]

Copy Agile price from Octopus Incoming page.
Paste result in columns A & B starting at Cell A1.

Formulae are: Column C =LEN(B2) Column D =LEFT(B2;(C2-5))

I then copy the entries in column D and paste them into the day by day spread sheet as a row where all the columns are formatted as Number 1234.00 using "Paste Special - Transpose" with only Number selected. The result is empty cells in the row. If I also tick Text, I get the "numbers" all taged as Text, and have to manually delete the ' from each "number".
So to reframe my question, is the problem down to using Transpose, or is it that stripping the letters out of the Price data using text functions instead of deleting them manually makes the text "numbers" uncovertable to number format?

Statistics: Posted by CrankyEngineer — Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:23 am

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