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 count the total number of characters, subtracts 1 ...

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 ...

Tooltip text will prompt you to enter arguments in the form of "DEC2BIN (number, [places])." Enter the number you wish to convert. For example, if you want to convert 100 to binary, type "100 ...

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.

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

The first method for converting a number to its written equivalent is to use direct entry. For example, if you were looking to write out 47.75 into forty seven dollars and seventy five cents, you can ...

If your data includes inconsistent types, such as numbers mixed with text in the same column, this automatic step can cause ‘DataFormat.Error: We couldn’t convert to Number’.