A solution I remember reading on here a while back.
in a seperate cell put a 1
Copy that cell
then Select the column of 'text-numbers'
Paste Special...
Choose Multiply

Should work

Steve

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:35:02 +0100, hotelmasters
wrote:

i have downloaded a report that contains a column full of numbers that
are
not recognized as numbers but rather text and can therefore not be used
in
the SUM formula. the column contains over 13000 rows. is there anyway
to
turn these numbers into numbers - aside from hitting F2 and enter on
each and
every cell?
thanks.