Kris
If Ron's method does not do the job, perhaps you have some junk in the cells.
Extra spaces, non-breaking spaces to name a couple.
Depends upon where the text is imported from.
Post back if that is the case.
Gord Dibben Excel MVP
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:33:58 +0200, "Ron de Bruin"
wrote:
Have you try this
Copy a empty cell
Select the cells with text values
Right click on the selection
Choose Paste Special ..... Add
OK
ESC
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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl
"knutsenk" wrote in message ...
I tryed following the instructions for converting text to numbers and it
didn't work.
I am sure someone has had this problem. Any help appreciated.
thanks,
kris