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Default numbers need to be numbers

See your other post............the one you tacked onto.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:20:01 -0700, Coco212
wrote:

I exported a spreadsheet from a website using their export link, using MS
2007, it has hundreds of cells with numbers, I need to make charts, but, even
though the characters look like numbers they are not recognized as numbers.



I tried selecting/changing format. I tried entering 1 as a number in a
different cell, made sure it is a number, copied it, and did
paste/special/multiply.



The only thing that works is to create a new spreadsheet and hand enter the
numbers, and there is not enough time.



Help....? THANKS!

Synthia