Numbers Stored as Text

citadel_87

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Due a ton of work importing .CSV files and I am always fighting numbers stored as text. Suggestions? When you do lookups the error goes over to the results. I have multipled by one, converted to text, converted to value and used data text to columns...What a pain
 

Excel Facts

Convert text numbers to real numbers
Select a column containing text numbers. Press Alt+D E F to quickly convert text to numbers. Faster than "Convert to Number"
Select the range with numbers stored as text, and run the macro:

Code:
Sub Test()
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Dim Cell As Range
    Selection.NumberFormat = "General"
    For Each Cell In Selection.Cells
        Cell.Value = Cell.Value
    Next
End Sub
 
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