convert text to numbers

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    Converting text amount to a number that excel sees as numbers and not text

    Hi there, I have copied a dataset from word to excel but now excel does not recognize the amounts as numbers so I cant do any calculations. The numbers appear as 3 258 124. I've tried to remove the spaces but excel cant find any spaces so it must be a special character. Please help. Thanks...
    • Riaang
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    • convert text to numbers excel numbers spaces text
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Excel Questions
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    Paste Special Multiply on blank cells

    I am attempting to convert cells that are stored as text to numeric values. I have spreadsheet with cells showing numbers as text. I format a cell as numeric, copy that cell, select the cells to convert and go to Paste > Paste Special > Multiply. The cells in columns with text in them are...
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    Excel VBA unable to get the AverageIf, Run-time error 1004

    Hi! Please help me to solve a problem. I have Excel’s reports created by some analytic software. There are many data there. One of my actions is to apply AverageIf function for two columns (average from L column based on G column criteria). Moreover L column numbers originally go as a text...
    • EuginG
    • Thread
    • averageif convert text to numbers error 1004 excel vba range
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Excel Questions
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    Extracting numbers from a text string to use in a calculation

    I am trying to extract numbers, some of which are fractions, from a text string to use in calculating the weight of the material in a list. Example from cell D14: Bar 4x1/4 I was able to extract the "4" with =VALUE(MID(D14,SEARCH(" ",D14,1)+1,(SEARCH("X",D14,1))-(SEARCH(" ",D14,1)+1))) but I...
    • bigalrm1
    • Thread
    • convert text to numbers extract cell value text and numbers
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Excel Questions
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    Looping through sheets and changing text to number based on a variable range

    This should be easy, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. I have a workbook with 20 sheets, and column C in all of the sheets contain numbers that are stored as text. I want to loop through each sheet, define the max rows in column C as a variable, then convert C2:Cvariable from text...
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    If Statement with Text as a range of Values and Numbers needed as Output

    Hey guys and girls, I found this website via Google trying to solve a problem I'm trying to solve with Excel 2010, so I decided to make an account and post my problem here as it seems a friendly community. I have the following list (showing part of it)...
    • Xifajk
    • Thread
    • convert text to numbers counter if statement range between cells text
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Excel Questions
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    Macro Convert Text to Numbers Allow Type mismatch

    Folks: Found this Macro that works to Convert Text to Numbers: Sub Enter_Values() For Each xCell In Selection xCell.Value = CDec(xCell.Value) Next xCell End Sub Problem is it "breaks" when it encounters text that can not be converted to a number: Run-time error '13': Type mismatch How...

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