if the values are numbers, you can format the column as Number under
format=Cells, number tab.

then select a blank cell and do edit copy. Select the cells in the column
and do Edit=PasteSpecial and select Values and Add. This should have the
same effect as selecting each cell and editing it. An alternative is to
select the column and do Data=Text to columns and in the wizard, select
delimited, then select a delimiter that does not appear in the entries.
This should also cause Excel to reevaluate the values in the cells and store
them as numbers.

A macro (select the cells you want converted)

Sub Convert()
Dim cell as Range
selection.Numberformat = "#,##0.00"
for each cell in selection.SpecialCells(xlConstants, xlTextValues)
cell.Formula = cell.Value
Next
selection.Numberformat = "General"
End Sub


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"CDB" wrote in message
...
I am currently using Microsoft 2000 and as part of my job
I need to download figures into a spreadsheet and do
analysis on these figures. The problem is that when I
download the figures they must get imported as text, ans
they are not recognised until I go through each cell
pressing the F2 key. I can have thousands of rows at a
time, so this can take quite long.

Is there any code I can use to just set up a macro to loop
through the cells with data in and press the F2 key?