Cells as text not numbers???
 

I have a file with a bunch of numbers on it and when I sum them up it
returns 0. If i double click in each of the cells then the sum works.

There are a few thousand cells so i can't doubleclick in each. How can
I change them all at the same time?

I tried formatting them all as a number and that didnt work. There is
no ' before it either.

thanks in advance.


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Excel is seeing the numbers as text. There are some techniques here that
you can use to convert the text to numbers, so they can be summed:

http://www.contextures.com/xlDataEntry03.html


tkaplan wrote:
I have a file with a bunch of numbers on it and when I sum them up it
returns 0. If i double click in each of the cells then the sum works.

There are a few thousand cells so i can't doubleclick in each. How can
I change them all at the same time?

I tried formatting them all as a number and that didnt work. There is
no ' before it either.

thanks in advance.




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Debra Dalgleish
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