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Jacob Skaria Jacob Skaria is offline
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Default converting a text column to a number column & removing the '

--Copy a blank cell.
--Keeping the copy select your data range
--Right clickPasteSpecialselect 'Add'Click OK

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Jacob Skaria


"Gayle from CyberCore" wrote:

I have a large spreadsheet with a column of information that was set up as
text even though the contents are numbers.
I want to highlight the whole column and perform a function that will
eliminate the ' before each number.

Can that be done?