Yes, that's how I interpreted this:

There is a string in cell A1, such as
........ .... (3.25%)

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:28:24 -0400, "T. Valko"
wrote:

Here's another one...

=--SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND("(",A1)+1,10),")","")

Format as Percentage

I believe that requires that the ")" is the last non-space character
--ron