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Converting text???
Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it.
If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done? -- Thomas |
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Converting text???
the simplest method is to enter a single quote in front. '5E094
If there arer a lot of them, YOu might write a macro to look for large numbers and convert them to the text format you want. "T Miller" wrote: Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it. If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done? -- Thomas |
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bj,
In the cell it looks like this 5.00E+94, what it should be is 5E094. I tried the single quote but that did not change anything, and when I try to make it text or a number it stays the same..... I know there is a way to fix this. -- Thomas "bj" wrote: the simplest method is to enter a single quote in front. '5E094 If there arer a lot of them, YOu might write a macro to look for large numbers and convert them to the text format you want. "T Miller" wrote: Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it. If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done? -- Thomas |
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Format the cell as text before you put the data in there.
-- David Biddulph Rowing web pages at "T Miller" wrote in message ... bj, In the cell it looks like this 5.00E+94, what it should be is 5E094. I tried the single quote but that did not change anything, and when I try to make it text or a number it stays the same..... I know there is a way to fix this. -- Thomas "bj" wrote: the simplest method is to enter a single quote in front. '5E094 If there arer a lot of them, YOu might write a macro to look for large numbers and convert them to the text format you want. "T Miller" wrote: Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it. If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done? -- Thomas |
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Converting text???
If you are using Excel 2002 or later when you copy and paste from
notepad, a little icon should appear with a paste symbol. If you click on this you can select text import wizard with the options: Step 1. Delimited. Next Step 2. Tab delimiter. Next Step 3. Select the column containing the entry 5E094 and choose text as the column data format. Then click finish T Miller wrote: bj, In the cell it looks like this 5.00E+94, what it should be is 5E094. I tried the single quote but that did not change anything, and when I try to make it text or a number it stays the same..... I know there is a way to fix this. -- Thomas "bj" wrote: the simplest method is to enter a single quote in front. '5E094 If there arer a lot of them, YOu might write a macro to look for large numbers and convert them to the text format you want. "T Miller" wrote: Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it. If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done? -- Thomas |
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Format cell as text
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"+",0) "T Miller" wrote: Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it. If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done? -- Thomas |
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