I was doing work on Excel sheet having large "Number Database".

some heavy papers were placed on my keyboard causing certain keys to get
pressed and some function changed all the numerical data into text.

I tried to work back but failed, Interestingly, if same data is copied to
another sheet, it is appearing in its original shape.

Please comment.

Hi,

You might try this. Put a 1 in a cell somewhere and copy it.

Select your data and then
Edit|Paste Special
Select Multiply
Click OK

This should convert your data back to numbers.

Mike

"Rashid" wrote:

I was doing work on Excel sheet having large "Number Database".

some heavy papers were placed on my keyboard causing certain keys to get
pressed and some function changed all the numerical data into text.

I tried to work back but failed, Interestingly, if same data is copied to
another sheet, it is appearing in its original shape.

Please comment.

Tey selecting the cells and go Data - Text to columns. Click Finish (not
Next).

HTH. Best wishes Harald


"Rashid" wrote in message
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I was doing work on Excel sheet having large "Number Database".

some heavy papers were placed on my keyboard causing certain keys to get
pressed and some function changed all the numerical data into text.

I tried to work back but failed, Interestingly, if same data is copied to
another sheet, it is appearing in its original shape.

Please comment.