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Extract Negative Numbers From a String in Excel - Excel Tips and Tricks

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Learn how to extract negative numbers from a string in Excel.

To extract numbers from text in Excel or Google Sheets, you can use various functions like "VALUE", "MID", or "REGEXEXTRACT" depending on your specific needs. For instance, if you want to pull numbers from a mixed text string in Excel, you can utilize formulas like "MID" to isolate numeric characters from the string. Similarly, in Google Sheets, you might use "REGEXEXTRACT" to extract numbers based on a pattern from a text string. These functions help separate numerical values from text strings, making data manipulation easier.

By the end of the video, you should be able to answer the following questions.
How do you extract numbers from a text string in Excel?
How do I extract numbers from a string?
How do I extract numbers from text in sheets?
How do I extract a number from a text string in Excel?
How do I separate numbers from text strings in Excel?
How do I extract a number from a string?
How do you extract values from text in Excel?

Here is the break down of the formula.

=LET(
multi,IFERROR(IF(FIND("-", A10) > 0, -1, 1), 1),
VALUE(TEXTJOIN("", TRUE, IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A10,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A10))),1)), MID(A10, ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A10))), 1), IF(MID(A10, ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A10))), 1) = ".", ".", ""))))
*(multi))

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