Sometimes, when numbers are imported or copied from an external source, they might come through formatted as text. You’ll probably want to change the format to numbers otherwise it can cause errors in calculations or sorting. Here’s how you can change ...
If you want Excel to treat certain types of numbers as text, you can use the text format instead of a number format. For example, If you are using credit card numbers, or other number codes that contain 16 digits or more, you must use a text format. That’s because Excel has a max...
When a cell is formatted as Text, Excel will treat the cell value as a text string, even if you input a number or date. By default, the Excel Text format aligns values left in a cell. When applying the Text format to selected cells via theFormat Cellsdialog window, there is no optio...
While Microsoft Word provides a straightforward subscript button on its toolbar, Excel requires a few more steps to achieve the same formatting. This can make the task of formatting text as subscript in Excel seem a bit more complex. However, with the right approach, you can easily apply subs...
Other values have been entered as displayed, complete with the character < in the value, for example < 0.12. Since < is part of the value, Excel treats it as text. The number format does not affect this, so whether the format is General or Text or 0.00 or < 0.00, Exce...
1. Convert date to text This section provides the methods on converting date to text in Excel. To convert date to text, you just need one formula. Formula: =TEXT(date,”date_format”) Reference: date: the cell with date you want to convert to text date_format: the format you want ...
The output of TEXT is very similar tousing custom formatting in Excel. The syntax for it is as below: =TEXT(value, format_text) Here,valuerefers to the number you want to convert, whileformat_textis the formatting scheme you want to use. ...
In the Data tab, select "Text to Columns" Select Delimited > Next, Comma > Next, General > Finish. Select all of the numbers and format as Special > Phone Number For future reference, please ask new questions in a new thread.
Question: How do I format how the text displays in a cell in Microsoft Excel 2007?Answer: Select the cells that you wish to format.Right-click and then select "Format Cells" from the popup menu.When the Format Cells window appears, select the Number tab. In the Category listbox, select...
37sheet.Range["B12"].Text ="0.00%"; 38sheet.Range["C12"].NumberValue = 1234.5678; 39sheet.Range["C12"].NumberFormat ="0.00%"; Step 3: Change the background color of the range and set column width to autofit. 1sheet.Range["B3:B12"].Style.Kn...