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Formatting from Number to Text
I have an excel file that has one column for Product No (alphanumeric). I
have found that some of the cell are displaying Scientific Notation (e.g. 4.00000e+016) even when I specified the formatting to be text. The only way I could get them to show as 40000001235 is to go to each cell and click on the formula bar. Is there an easier way? I've tried =Value(abc123), =abc123, copy and paste special/values...but none of these worked. To top it off, the formula remains instead of showing the value: =abc123 instead of 4.0000e+016. |
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Formatting from Number to Text
Format the cell as text BEFORE entering the text. Or put and asterisk ' at
the beginning of the entry. HTH Otto "FredL" wrote in message ... I have an excel file that has one column for Product No (alphanumeric). I have found that some of the cell are displaying Scientific Notation (e.g. 4.00000e+016) even when I specified the formatting to be text. The only way I could get them to show as 40000001235 is to go to each cell and click on the formula bar. Is there an easier way? I've tried =Value(abc123), =abc123, copy and paste special/values...but none of these worked. To top it off, the formula remains instead of showing the value: =abc123 instead of 4.0000e+016. |
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I've tried that where I copied and pasted to a new workbook that was
previously formatted as text. It didn't work. The original file is a download from a system and has 7K lines; this isn't a manual entry. "Otto Moehrbach" wrote: Format the cell as text BEFORE entering the text. Or put and asterisk ' at the beginning of the entry. HTH Otto "FredL" wrote in message ... I have an excel file that has one column for Product No (alphanumeric). I have found that some of the cell are displaying Scientific Notation (e.g. 4.00000e+016) even when I specified the formatting to be text. The only way I could get them to show as 40000001235 is to go to each cell and click on the formula bar. Is there an easier way? I've tried =Value(abc123), =abc123, copy and paste special/values...but none of these worked. To top it off, the formula remains instead of showing the value: =abc123 instead of 4.0000e+016. |
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Hi Fredl
try =text(a2,"###") copy and paste special values hth -- regards from Brazil Thanks in advance for your feedback. Marcelo "FredL" escreveu: I've tried that where I copied and pasted to a new workbook that was previously formatted as text. It didn't work. The original file is a download from a system and has 7K lines; this isn't a manual entry. "Otto Moehrbach" wrote: Format the cell as text BEFORE entering the text. Or put and asterisk ' at the beginning of the entry. HTH Otto "FredL" wrote in message ... I have an excel file that has one column for Product No (alphanumeric). I have found that some of the cell are displaying Scientific Notation (e.g. 4.00000e+016) even when I specified the formatting to be text. The only way I could get them to show as 40000001235 is to go to each cell and click on the formula bar. Is there an easier way? I've tried =Value(abc123), =abc123, copy and paste special/values...but none of these worked. To top it off, the formula remains instead of showing the value: =abc123 instead of 4.0000e+016. |
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Wow! 10 million thanks for that little trick. I appreciate it. I have been
stuck on that one for a while. "Marcelo" wrote: Hi Fredl try =text(a2,"###") copy and paste special values hth -- regards from Brazil Thanks in advance for your feedback. Marcelo "FredL" escreveu: I've tried that where I copied and pasted to a new workbook that was previously formatted as text. It didn't work. The original file is a download from a system and has 7K lines; this isn't a manual entry. "Otto Moehrbach" wrote: Format the cell as text BEFORE entering the text. Or put and asterisk ' at the beginning of the entry. HTH Otto "FredL" wrote in message ... I have an excel file that has one column for Product No (alphanumeric). I have found that some of the cell are displaying Scientific Notation (e.g. 4.00000e+016) even when I specified the formatting to be text. The only way I could get them to show as 40000001235 is to go to each cell and click on the formula bar. Is there an easier way? I've tried =Value(abc123), =abc123, copy and paste special/values...but none of these worked. To top it off, the formula remains instead of showing the value: =abc123 instead of 4.0000e+016. |
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