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Numbers SHOULD BE text
Have data that is a mix of number and text.
Ex: the field if PN The data could be: ABC123 123 AB23 I have formatted the column as TEXT, but if I use function isnumber(a2) for value 123, it comes back TRUE. I want 123 to be considered text; I'll be importing into Access. What's my next step? -- Eva H. Linich Business Applications |
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Try putting an apostrophe before the numbers. This forces the cell to be text. -- mrice Research Scientist with many years of spreadsheet development experience ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrice's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=10931 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=544421 |
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Numbers SHOULD BE text
Try this:
Select your single column of values <data<text-to-columns [Next] [Next] Column format: Text [Finish] That should convert everything in the selected column of cells to text with a number format of text. Does that help? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Eva at Work" wrote: Have data that is a mix of number and text. Ex: the field if PN The data could be: ABC123 123 AB23 I have formatted the column as TEXT, but if I use function isnumber(a2) for value 123, it comes back TRUE. I want 123 to be considered text; I'll be importing into Access. What's my next step? -- Eva H. Linich Business Applications |
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Numbers SHOULD BE text
I will test this theory (sounds like it'll work) and advise.
Thx -- Eva H. Linich Business Applications "Ron Coderre" wrote: Try this: Select your single column of values <data<text-to-columns [Next] [Next] Column format: Text [Finish] That should convert everything in the selected column of cells to text with a number format of text. Does that help? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Eva at Work" wrote: Have data that is a mix of number and text. Ex: the field if PN The data could be: ABC123 123 AB23 I have formatted the column as TEXT, but if I use function isnumber(a2) for value 123, it comes back TRUE. I want 123 to be considered text; I'll be importing into Access. What's my next step? -- Eva H. Linich Business Applications |
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