That being said, even if you copy data from the internet and paste it into the Excel spreadsheet, you can find numbers in the text. You can follow the aforementioned steps to convert the numbers ...

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.

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...