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how to convert text to number
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Give more details. Do you mean a word like "two" to be converted to
the number 2 ? Pete On Jul 31, 2:57*pm, kev wrote: please help |
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So you have a bunch of numbers that are actually text??? If so then...
Place the number 1 in any blank cell. Copy it Select the range of text to be Converted Select Paste Special - Multiply Your text is now numbers... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "kev" wrote: please help |
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I tried that and still didn't get numbers. I tried multiplying by one...no
luck. I then noticed that there were many empty spaces after each number. I tried the trim function and the value function. Eventually I just individually deleted the empty spaces and they turned into numbers. Fortunately I only had 6 cells to work with. Is there something else I could have tried? "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: So you have a bunch of numbers that are actually text??? If so then... Place the number 1 in any blank cell. Copy it Select the range of text to be Converted Select Paste Special - Multiply Your text is now numbers... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "kev" wrote: please help |
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You could have used th formula =value() that converts any string containing a
number into number. -- Alex *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you. Thank you! "gwen" wrote: I tried that and still didn't get numbers. I tried multiplying by one...no luck. I then noticed that there were many empty spaces after each number. I tried the trim function and the value function. Eventually I just individually deleted the empty spaces and they turned into numbers. Fortunately I only had 6 cells to work with. Is there something else I could have tried? "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: So you have a bunch of numbers that are actually text??? If so then... Place the number 1 in any blank cell. Copy it Select the range of text to be Converted Select Paste Special - Multiply Your text is now numbers... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "kev" wrote: please help |
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Yes I tried that and it did not work.
"alexrs2k" wrote: You could have used th formula =value() that converts any string containing a number into number. -- Alex *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you. Thank you! "gwen" wrote: I tried that and still didn't get numbers. I tried multiplying by one...no luck. I then noticed that there were many empty spaces after each number. I tried the trim function and the value function. Eventually I just individually deleted the empty spaces and they turned into numbers. Fortunately I only had 6 cells to work with. Is there something else I could have tried? "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: So you have a bunch of numbers that are actually text??? If so then... Place the number 1 in any blank cell. Copy it Select the range of text to be Converted Select Paste Special - Multiply Your text is now numbers... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "kev" wrote: please help |
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Maybe your spaces weren't proper spaces (with character code of 32) -
they may have been the non-breaking space character with a code of 160, and TRIM does not get rid of these. You would need to use the SUBSTITUTE function, or you could use Find & Replace. Hope this helps. Pete On Jul 31, 8:32*pm, gwen wrote: Yes I tried that and it did not work. "alexrs2k" wrote: You could have used th formula =value() that converts any string containing a number into number. -- Alex *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you. Thank you! "gwen" wrote: I tried that and still didn't get numbers. *I tried multiplying by one...no luck. *I then noticed that there were many empty spaces after each number. *I tried the trim function and the value function. *Eventually I just individually deleted the empty spaces and they turned into numbers. * Fortunately I only had 6 cells to work with. *Is there something else I could have tried? "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: So you have a bunch of numbers that are actually text??? If so then.... Place the number 1 in any blank cell. Copy it Select the range of text to be Converted Select Paste Special - Multiply Your text is now numbers... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "kev" wrote: please help- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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