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Why won't my cells change from Text to % or Numbers
I have a spreadsheet that was copied from a web page and pasted into Excel.
Each cell shows a percentage. When I go to get an average of a column using =average(a1:a20) I do not get a result. I get #DIV/0! I have tried to switch the column to Percentage and to a number. Changing the number of decimal points has no affect. I have even tried a few of the customer If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " (minus the quotation marks). There are hundreds of cells so deleteing the spaces in each cell is not an idea I am looking to embrace. Thanx in advance for the help. |
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Why won't my cells change from Text to % or Numbers
copied from a web page and pasted into Excel.
If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " Yep, that's you're problem and copying from a web site could mean those spaces are not standard spaces but html. There's a macro at this site that will clean all that garbage out. I do a lot of copying from the web and this macro saves a lot time. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall Biff "Ezlpo" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that was copied from a web page and pasted into Excel. Each cell shows a percentage. When I go to get an average of a column using =average(a1:a20) I do not get a result. I get #DIV/0! I have tried to switch the column to Percentage and to a number. Changing the number of decimal points has no affect. I have even tried a few of the customer If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " (minus the quotation marks). There are hundreds of cells so deleteing the spaces in each cell is not an idea I am looking to embrace. Thanx in advance for the help. |
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Why won't my cells change from Text to % or Numbers
Thanx, that is exactly what I needed. !!!!
"Biff" wrote: copied from a web page and pasted into Excel. If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " Yep, that's you're problem and copying from a web site could mean those spaces are not standard spaces but html. There's a macro at this site that will clean all that garbage out. I do a lot of copying from the web and this macro saves a lot time. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall Biff "Ezlpo" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that was copied from a web page and pasted into Excel. Each cell shows a percentage. When I go to get an average of a column using =average(a1:a20) I do not get a result. I get #DIV/0! I have tried to switch the column to Percentage and to a number. Changing the number of decimal points has no affect. I have even tried a few of the customer If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " (minus the quotation marks). There are hundreds of cells so deleteing the spaces in each cell is not an idea I am looking to embrace. Thanx in advance for the help. |
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Why won't my cells change from Text to % or Numbers
To make things even better you could put a custom button on one of your
toolbars and assign that macro to the button. Thanks for the feedback! Biff "Ezlpo" wrote in message ... Thanx, that is exactly what I needed. !!!! "Biff" wrote: copied from a web page and pasted into Excel. If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " Yep, that's you're problem and copying from a web site could mean those spaces are not standard spaces but html. There's a macro at this site that will clean all that garbage out. I do a lot of copying from the web and this macro saves a lot time. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall Biff "Ezlpo" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that was copied from a web page and pasted into Excel. Each cell shows a percentage. When I go to get an average of a column using =average(a1:a20) I do not get a result. I get #DIV/0! I have tried to switch the column to Percentage and to a number. Changing the number of decimal points has no affect. I have even tried a few of the customer If I were to guess. I would say that the problem is the 4 spaces found after the percentage. So each cell has as an example "100.00% " (minus the quotation marks). There are hundreds of cells so deleteing the spaces in each cell is not an idea I am looking to embrace. Thanx in advance for the help. |
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