Convert text to number in excel 2013
Sometimes you may not want the numbers in the cells getting involved in calculating, or you may want to display leading zeros in numbers in cells. For doing so, you may need to change a number into text. The following methods can convert numbers in cells to text in Excel.
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Supposing there are some numbers in cells as following screenshot shows. How do you convert these numbers to text?
Convert number to text with Text function
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If you are familiar with Microsoft Excel's formulas, you can convert numbers in cells to text with Text function.
If you just only want to convert the number to text without any formatting, you can use the formula: = Text (A1, “0”) ;
1. In cell E1, please enter the formula = Text (A1, “0”) .
2. Then press Enter key. And select the cell E1, drag the fill handle over the range of cells that you want to apply this formula.
3. As the data is formula, you can change the formulas to values. Copy the cells and right-click where you want to paste the values and select Paste special. Select values and your values will be displayed as text as below.
If you want to display the leading zero in numbers, you can use this formula: =Text (A1, “0000”) ; such as convert 23 to 0023 .
As the above steps, if you apply this formula, you will get the following result:
And if you want to convert the numbers to text which keep several decimal digits, you can use this formula: =Text (A1, “0.000”) . Such as convert 23 to 23.000 .
Also with above steps, if you apply this formula, you will get the result as the following screenshots:
Note: you can define the text style. For example, if you want to convert the numbers to text with a telephone number format, you can replace the "000" with "00-00000", or others.
Convert number to text with Format Cells command
Microsoft Excel's Format Cells command is also able to convert numbers to text.
1. Select the numbers that you want to convert to text.
2. Right click the selected range, and choose the Format Cells item from context menu. See screenshot:
3. In the Format Cells dialog box, select the Text item in the Category box under Number tab, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:
Then numbers in selected range are converted into text.
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1. Select the range with numbers that you want to change to text.
2. Click Kutools > Content > Convert between Text and Number. See screenshot:
3. In the Convert between Text and Number dialog box, check the Number to text option, and then click the OK or Apply button. See screenshot:
Now all numbers in selected range are converted to text in the original range. See screenshots:
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J64=TEXT(B64,"000 0000 0000 0 "&H64) it changes to "089 0151 2000 2 0" instead of "890 1512 0002 0 0"
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Ex. 1/1/2017 d/m/yyyy in the same way but text formatting?
Convert text to number in excel 2013
When you import data from some source, such as Access or text files, numbers may be formatted as text in cells occasionally. Calculations and sorting will go wrong if numbers are formatted or stored as text. Here are several methods to convert text to numbers in Microsoft Excel.
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Convert text to number with Error checking rules in Excel
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Generally speaking, when the numbers are formatted or stored in cells as text, there will be an error sign at upper-left corner of the cell. After selecting the cell, it displays an error button before this cell. Click the error button , and it will display a menu, you can click on Convert to Numbercommand item to convert the text in the cell into number. See screenshot:
Then the number stored as text has been converted to number. And then repeat this way for other cells.
If there are no error signs at upper-left corner of the cells, you can also use the Error Checking command under Formula tab to deal with it. Please do as this:
2. Then in the Error Checking dialog box, click Convert to Number button. And repeatedly click this button to convert other text to numbers.
3. When the last cell text has been changed to number, it will pop up a prompt box to remind you all of the text has been converted to numbers.
But when there are large blocks of data that need to change, this method will be tedious and time-consuming.
Convert text to number with Paste Special
The second method is to convert numbers stored as text by calculating with Paste Special command in Microsoft Excel.
1. Please enter number 0 in a blank cell and copy it;
2. Select the range cells containing numbers stored as text;
3. Right click the selected range, and choose the Paste Special option from context menu;
4. Then it shows Paste Special dialog box, and check the All option and Add option;
5. Click OK, and all the numbers stored as text will be converted to number. See screenshots:
- If you don’t want to change the cell formatting in the range after converting text to number, please choose to paste as Value in the Paste option.
- In the Operating options, please select the Add option or Subtract option.
- Disadvantage of this method: if the range contains blank cells, it will fill all blank cells with number 0.
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2. Then it displays the Force Value in cells dialog box. Just specify the range that contains numbers stored as text, and check the Text to number option.
3. And then click OK or Apply, all numbers stored as text will be converted into numbers in the selected range.
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Your formula worked perfectly.
This approach is exactly what I needed for my reports.
=IF(AND(A1="Yes"),"Yes",IF(AND(A1="Not applicable"),"Not applicable",IF(AND(A1="No"),"No",A1*1)))