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Ruth has attended:
Excel Introduction course
Excel Intermediate course

Formatting

some workbooks I receive have extra space bars in some cells and are therefore treated as text. How can I change them so that they are treated as numbers.

RE: formatting

Hi Ruth

Thankyou for attending the course, i hope you really enjoyed it.

The answer to your question is simply to fix, what you will need to do is highlight the cell are you want to change, then go to the format menu and choose cells. From the number tab choose number or general then click OK

This should do the trick

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Excel tip:

Highlighting only Text cells

To select onlt text value cells in a spreadsheet, click on Edit-Go to(F5)


In the Go To dialog box, click Special.
In the Go To Special dialog box, select Constants.
Click OK.

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