[mso] Re: Excel Numbers

Thanks.  Formatting as number didn't work.  I believe the cells had a ' in
front of them.  The Data>Text thing did work.  Interesting.  I do have 2002
but doing the smart tag thing would have taken all weekend since there are
more than 5000 cells that were incorrectly formatted.

If there had not been an easy solution, I would have imported to Access,
changed the properties then exported back to Excel.

g

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda F. Johnson [mailto:linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:21 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel Numbers



It depends on how you changed them to text, Glenda....but...

A couple ways that work.  One is to highlight them all and go to
Format>Cells and click on the Number tab and choose Number in the
list....but that doesn't always work (especially if you changed them to text
by adding an apostrophe in them)

Another way is to highlight them all and go to Data>Text to Columns, leave
all the defaults and click OK and that  converts them to numbers for some
weird reason I can't remember

Another way is to type a 1 in any blank cell, then copy it...then highlight
all the text numbers and go to the Edit menu and choose Paste Special and
put a tick in "multiply"...then you can delete the 1

Of course, if you are using Excel 2002 and you see a smart tag next to the
cells when you click on them, you can click the dropdown for the smart tag
and choose "convert to number"


Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Glenda Wells
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:20 PM
To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [mso] Excel Numbers


I have many values in an excel spread sheet formatted as text.  How can I
change them to numbers so I can do calculations on them?  I should probably
know this but....no sparks.


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