You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...

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 just want to tell Excel what it is you want your formula to do. It'd be a lot easier if you could just say "sort this data in ascending order and find its average" i ...