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Convert Text to Numbers
Hello Experts, I wonder if you can help me again.
My company uses SAP R3, and information is downloaded from there into Excel. I am supposed to do a VLOOKUP to compare material numbers, but the info from SAP R3 downloads as text rather than numbers, which means my VLOOKUP will not work. I believe there is an easy method of converting text to numbers using the =VALUE formula, but I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help me? At the moment I have to go into every cell with a formula error, and use the 'Convert to Number' option in the formula error window. Thanks very much for any help. Regards Janet |
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Convert Text to Numbers
Try this:
1) In any cell type number 1 2) Press Ctrl+C to copy the above cell 3) Select the whole range which contains the text/numbers 4) Go to menu: Edit/Paste Special, check Paste - Values, Operation - Multiple This will mutiply all cells by 1 and auto convert those text into numbers. -- Best regards, --- Yongjun CHEN ================================= XLDataSoft - Data Analysis Expert, Excel/VBA Specialist - - - - www.XLDataSoft.com - - - - Free Excel-Based Data Processing Tool is Available for Download Free Excel / VBA Training Materials is Available for Download ================================= "Jitty" wrote in message ... Hello Experts, I wonder if you can help me again. My company uses SAP R3, and information is downloaded from there into Excel. I am supposed to do a VLOOKUP to compare material numbers, but the info from SAP R3 downloads as text rather than numbers, which means my VLOOKUP will not work. I believe there is an easy method of converting text to numbers using the =VALUE formula, but I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help me? At the moment I have to go into every cell with a formula error, and use the 'Convert to Number' option in the formula error window. Thanks very much for any help. Regards Janet |
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Convert Text to Numbers
Daniel
Brilliant - and exactly what I need. Thank you very much :-) Janet "Daniel CHEN" wrote: Try this: 1) In any cell type number 1 2) Press Ctrl+C to copy the above cell 3) Select the whole range which contains the text/numbers 4) Go to menu: Edit/Paste Special, check Paste - Values, Operation - Multiple This will mutiply all cells by 1 and auto convert those text into numbers. -- Best regards, --- Yongjun CHEN ================================= XLDataSoft - Data Analysis Expert, Excel/VBA Specialist - - - - www.XLDataSoft.com - - - - Free Excel-Based Data Processing Tool is Available for Download Free Excel / VBA Training Materials is Available for Download ================================= "Jitty" wrote in message ... Hello Experts, I wonder if you can help me again. My company uses SAP R3, and information is downloaded from there into Excel. I am supposed to do a VLOOKUP to compare material numbers, but the info from SAP R3 downloads as text rather than numbers, which means my VLOOKUP will not work. I believe there is an easy method of converting text to numbers using the =VALUE formula, but I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help me? At the moment I have to go into every cell with a formula error, and use the 'Convert to Number' option in the formula error window. Thanks very much for any help. Regards Janet |
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