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Ron Rosenfeld Ron Rosenfeld is offline
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Default change the format of cell

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:13:01 -0700, Exceller
wrote:

I have uploaded an excell spreadsheet and seem that all cells are text
formatted.
I can`t change to fromat of cell to number.
"Format cell" dosen`t working or change anything.


Changing the format will not do that.

You need to coerce these values to numbers by performing a math operation.

One method, after formatting the cells as General or Number:

Select and copy a blank cell.

Select the data.
Edit/Paste-Special/Add

--ron