The following code steps through a range, tests an extracted value, and
either deletes the row or writes the test value in column 1 as a text value.

For r = lastrow To 8 Step -1
tst = Left(impt.Cells(r, 2), 9)
If Application.CountA(Rows(r)) = 0 Or IsNumeric(tst) = False Then
Rows(r).Delete
Else
impt.Cells(r, 1) = WorksheetFunction.Text(tst, 0)
End If
Next r

The problem is that the values written to the cells reference "cells(r,1)"
is a numberic value, not text. (The str() function gives the same result.)
I can achieve my objective if I run a new for...next loop on the extracted
values after the above routine has completed, but why is that necesssary?
Why will the conversion function not work as intended in the first loop?

DM