Microsoft Excel depends on data that’s stored correctly. If you receive text values that should be real numbers, use one of these methods to get you back to the real work.

Type the formula =Value() and inside the parentheses, type a cell reference that contains text stored as numbers. In this example, it’s cell A2 . Press Enter.

Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert text into upper case, ... Then, it uses the LEN function to ...

This formula already works and you can use its value in other computations, but sometimes it can still cause errors in sorting if spaces are appended to the numbers. To convert the text string to ...

When this happens, use the DATEVALUE function to convert the text dates to Excel serial numbers. To test this function, enter five dates—as text—in cells A5 through A9.

Karan 01/06/1987 A Justin 09/08/1964 D Bob 04/05/1996 B Jason 08/09/1984 C. In this case, you may want to organize the data in the sequence of Name, DOB, and Grade across rows and columns and not ...