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SYMPTOMS

In the products that are listed at the beginning of this article, when you use the Val function with a text string that contains both a percent sign (%) and a decimal point in a Visual Basic for Applications macro, the following error message appears:

   Run-time error '13':
   Type mismatch

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, use the following macro code:

   Sub ConvertText()
   'This Visual Basic module converts the text string in the
   'variable "x" to a numeric value.
        Dim x as string
        x = "10.05%"
        y = Val(Left(x, Len(x)-1))
        MsgBox y
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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