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Bryan Hessey
 
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unless the figures were originally entered as '.123 when the 'Value'
will be required.



Jerry W. Lewis Wrote:
Changing the format does not change the underlying value. In
particular, you must do more than simply reformat to change text
digits
into a number. Copy an empty cell, select the column and Edit|Paste
Special|Add.

Jerry

vitality wrote:

Hi everyone.

I has a column of data full of:
.123
.123
.65
.89
-- all in text format.

Is it possible to have some equation to change those data to:
0.123
0.123
0.65
0.89
-- as number format.

Thx



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