Converting Numbers to Text properly
We have part numbers some of which are a mixture of text and numbers and some that are numbers only. Excel sees those parts consisting of only numbers as numbers rather than text. Even if I format the column to text, the numbers simply move to the left hand side but still see themselves as numbers. I know I can precede a numeric value with an apostrophe to make Excel see the cell contents as text however this is time consuming. Once I have formatted the column to text, I can then double click on each cell containing only numbers and it will then see itself as text but again this is time consuming. In other instances and particularly when bring the data into Excel from another source, Excel converts long part number to exponents which is no use at all as I can end up with duplicate parts – part no 234567112244 with show up as 2.34567E+11 and so does part no 234567112245 where the last digit is the only difference. Any suggestions. -- Shirley Munro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shirley Munro's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...nfo&userid=836 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=345882 |
If you format as text, it will be text. Left aligned is text
don't know what you mean by "but still see themselves as numbers" If you bring it in as text you can use datatext to columns and select text as column data format in step 3 -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Shirley Munro" wrote in message ... We have part numbers some of which are a mixture of text and numbers and some that are numbers only. Excel sees those parts consisting of only numbers as numbers rather than text. Even if I format the column to text, the numbers simply move to the left hand side but still see themselves as numbers. I know I can precede a numeric value with an apostrophe to make Excel see the cell contents as text however this is time consuming. Once I have formatted the column to text, I can then double click on each cell containing only numbers and it will then see itself as text but again this is time consuming. In other instances and particularly when bring the data into Excel from another source, Excel converts long part number to exponents which is no use at all as I can end up with duplicate parts - part no 234567112244 with show up as 2.34567E+11 and so does part no 234567112245 where the last digit is the only difference. Any suggestions. -- Shirley Munro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shirley Munro's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...nfo&userid=836 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=345882 |
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