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Default Numbers stored as text

Unfortunately no layout. Thye are nornally mixed with text entryies. An
example are part numbers.

I some are numeric and some are alphabetical Excel stores as Text.
Unfortunately Excel looks at some as text and sosme as numbers.

This is not a new problem with excel. It has been a problem for many ages.

"Gary Keramidas" wrote:

without knowing the layout, it's pretty hard to come up with some code.

what i have done is copy a blank cell, pastespecial over the number stored
as text and select add and then ok.

but if there is some consistent layout, just post back.

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Gary
Excel 2003


"lwm" wrote in message
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Is there an efficient vba module to convdert any numbers stored as text in
a
file.

This is a problem with many accounting systems that extract data to a
"Excel
File".


Using vllokups ad such creates problems when one file is in stored as text
and the other is stored as a number.


Thanks