Excel

[MattR]

I think this has been asked before but I can't seem to find the thread.

When downloading the betting history from betfair it formats onto excel with the pr/loss column in text with minuses in brackets and you cannot highlight it and get a sum total of the column. I think someone (mat probably!) said how to change this but I can't remember. Have tried the basic formatting the column to numbers etc but with no joy.

thanks

[mathare]

Actually I think I suggested VBA to change the format as that's how I have done it in the past but there is another solution - I just can't remember what it was! Let me have a search on the forum...

[mathare]

http://www.win2win.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=472779&highlight=brackets#post472779

[MattR]

Cheers Mat. :thumbs When I select paste special after copying that I get that other box with the list of options rather than the one that lets you select unitext but by selecting 'add' under the operations section it worked anyway

[mathare]

If you paste (normal) into one workbook and then, in a wholly separate instance of Excel (i.e start Excel twice), paste that data from the first workbook in using paste special you'll get the unitext option. But that's rather convoluted and you have got a way to get it working anyway

[vegyjones]

Get a pen, get a piece of paper, and do it the man's way ya Sissy

[MattR]

:laugh

Paper? You softy. Blood used from a nose bleed by banging your head against the wall and then scraped into the skin with a rusty knife. :D

[TheOldhamWhisper]

Paper? You softy. Blood used from a nose bleed by banging your head against the wall and then scraped into the skin with a rusty knife. :D

Luxury - What's up wi' a rusty nail? Tell me that! And if WE wanted someat to etch on, we 'ad to stretch us scrotum out and leave it in the sun for 3 days... :yikes:

:laugh