=--SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")
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David Biddulph

a m spock wrote:
did not work. here is copy of one cell:

4,76,258.33


"Ashish Mathur" wrote:

Hi,

Select the range and then go to Data Text columns. Just click on
Finish

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Regards,

Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

"a m spock" wrote in message
...
i have received a spreadsheet with some numbers which seem to be
entered as
text. i am not able to convert them back to numbers with
=value(text). can someone please help.