When importing from a FoxPro database, all the charactors come over as text. When I try to sum these numbers, it will not sum because excel thinks they are text. Isn't there a way to convert all these to numbers through vba?

Hi
one way (non-VBA):
select and empty cell and copy it
- select your imported values
- goto 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose 'Add'

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Cecil wrote:
When importing from a FoxPro database, all the charactors come over
as text. When I try to sum these numbers, it will not sum because
excel thinks they are text. Isn't there a way to convert all these
to numbers through vba?

No offence Frank, but all the advice I have gotten from you has been shall we say lame. There is 20 ways to manually do the text to numbers thing, I can do that. I am looking to do it with vba so I don't have to do it manually. Thanks anyway

----- Frank Kabel wrote: ----

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one way (non-VBA)
select and empty cell and copy i
- select your imported value
- goto 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose 'Add

--
Regard
Frank Kabe
Frankfurt, German


Cecil wrote
When importing from a FoxPro database, all the charactors come ove
as text. When I try to sum these numbers, it will not sum becaus
excel thinks they are text. Isn't there a way to convert all thes
to numbers through vba?

Cecil, for a person looking for help your attitude has has been rather shall
we say lame?

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Vasant


"cecil" wrote in message
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No offence Frank, but all the advice I have gotten from you has been shall
we say lame. There is 20 ways to manually do the text to numbers thing, I
can do that. I am looking to do it with vba so I don't have to do it
manually. Thanks anyway.

----- Frank Kabel wrote: -----

Hi
one way (non-VBA):
select and empty cell and copy it
- select your imported values
- goto 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose 'Add'

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Cecil wrote:
When importing from a FoxPro database, all the charactors come over
as text. When I try to sum these numbers, it will not sum because
excel thinks they are text. Isn't there a way to convert all these
to numbers through vba?

Sub ffff()
Dim C As Range
For Each C In Range("c1:c10")
C.NumberFormat = "0"
C.Value = C.Value
Next
End Su

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So
try something like
sub foo()
dim rng as range
dim cell as range
set rng = selection
for each cell in rng
if cell.value<""
cell.numberformat="General"
cell.value=cell.value
end if
next
end sub

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you may consider skipping such words as 'lame' as this won't help you
getting advice


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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


cecil wrote:
No offence Frank, but all the advice I have gotten from you has been
shall we say lame. There is 20 ways to manually do the text to
numbers thing, I can do that. I am looking to do it with vba so I
don't have to do it manually. Thanks anyway.

----- Frank Kabel wrote: -----

Hi
one way (non-VBA):
select and empty cell and copy it
- select your imported values
- goto 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose 'Add'

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Cecil wrote:
When importing from a FoxPro database, all the charactors come
over as text. When I try to sum these numbers, it will not
sum because excel thinks they are text. Isn't there a way to
convert all these to numbers through vba?