Select the column with your numbers in it, click Data/TextToColumns on
Excel's menu bar, click the Next button twice to get you to Step 3 of 3
(see title bar), then select Text from the "Column data format" section and
press the Finish button.

Rick


"Grd" wrote in message
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Hi,

When I change a bunch of numbers to text format it doesn't work straight
away. I need to edit each number (F2) to kick in the change and then the
format seems to stick. I'm using Excel 2003.

When I used IsText function it said false until I edited each cell and
pressed enter.

I'm having to do this for each cell. Please help.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Suzanne