Can't calculate values of fields with a $.

[Guest]

I need to paste a column of home sales prices, and a column of home square
footages, and calculate based on those two values. (sales price/square
footage)

BUT...the pasted list is in this format: "$250,000." Whenever I make the
calculations, I get a "VALUE!" error. This is because it doesn't understand
"$250,000" has a value. How can I get it to understand that "$250,000" has a
value of 250,000?

 

[Guest]

Highlight the column you want for Sales Price. Right click- Then left click
on "Format Cells"- Under number tab click "Currency". Don't type the $ key
just the price.

TC

 

[Guest]

I should clarify that I'm not typing in the fields at all, I'm copying from a
database and pasting into Excel. The dollar signs are in the data that I'm
copying. Removing them one by one would be very time-consuminig.

 

[Guest]

Hey everyone, I figured it out. The database I was copying from had a space
after the sales price. ( "$250,000 " ) So, I used this formula to remove the
contemptable extra space:

=(MID(A1,1,LEN(A1)-1))

(assuming my data is in A1)

which removes the last (rightmost) character from what I pasted.

Hope it helps you out if you run into this.