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Default Convert text to values

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:47:46 -0400, isabelle wrote:

hi Ron,

why make a loop ?


To ensure one is only converting dates.

While selecting everything might work if I were absolutely certain of the data being converted, one might not want to convert, for example, text-numbers with leading zero's, or formulas that result in a numeric result, to their numeric values.