I copy and pasted a bunch of dollar amounts from a text source, and because
all of the data contains the dollar sign and commas, excel interprets it as
text. The problem is that I need to use this data as numbers, ie. be able to
use the SUM and AVERAGE functions. Is there any way for me to reformat this
data so I am able to do this?

Try highlighting the column, then Data TextToColumns Delimited and
remove all delimiter checks Finish

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Andrew Bartholomew" <Andrew wrote in
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I copy and pasted a bunch of dollar amounts from a text source, and
because
all of the data contains the dollar sign and commas, excel interprets it
as
text. The problem is that I need to use this data as numbers, ie. be able
to
use the SUM and AVERAGE functions. Is there any way for me to reformat
this
data so I am able to do this?