convert formula itself to text?

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Pete Thurmes

Excellers,

I have an xls where there are columns of division formulas
directly entered (not containing cell references, e.g.
"=45/56" shows as what's contained in the cell when you
select it.) I'd like to break these out into separate cols
for the numerator and denominator values. I could do this
if there were a function to convert the forumula itself to
text, or some other method to deconstruct a formula.

The only way I know of is to click each cell and delete the
"=" character, then use text functions to extract the
number to the left of "/" and the number to the right.
That's a lot of work considering that I have thousands of
formulae to convert! (The labor-intensive part is deleting
the "=" from each cell)

Does anyone have any good ideas how I might accomplish this
"automagically"?

Thanks much!

--Pete
 

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