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Resetting cell format from TEXT to NUMERIC and DATE
Excel 2003 SP3
I downloaded some Yahoo data that is coming across as text. My spreadsheet columns need to change the format to numeric or date depending on the column. Here's the situation: there's a small green upward-left pointing arrow signifying that the cell is text. The group of cells were copied/pasted from Yahoo. (maybe next time I should paste-special??) I've attempting to highlight all the cells and change them from text to numeric or text to date but I'm unsuccessful. Dates are 1-May-08 instead of the 5/1/2008 format that I desire. Numeric text is showing as 6.21 (text) vs the 6.21 that I desire in a numeric format. So, how can I remove the text (green arrow) format and replace it with the proper numeric format. All things I've tried don't work (FormatCellsselect ANYTHING!!). TIA, |
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