How do I change the DATA TYPE of a cell or group of cells?
Jan 24, 2015 · I have a large spreadsheet of data which stubbornly will not change data type. when I run the type() formula on a cell, it returns the value 1, and it will not change no matter …
How do I make Excel recognise TRUE or FALSE text as boolean …
17 I have been using the INT formula to convert boolean values TRUE and FALSE into 1s and 0s. However, I have copied some data I have been given into my spreadsheet and Excel hasn't …
How do I force a column in excel to be stored as text?
At this point you will see the quote, but you can paste data in column B as values (CTRL+C & ALT+E+S and select values, or paste special as values from the top menu). Then find+replace …
Set data type to string so XLOOKUP will work - Super User
Mar 28, 2024 · Further investigation, you may find that, in Excel by default numbers are right aligned while texts are left aligned unless you have formatted the alignment, but it doesn't …
Formatting a comma-delimited CSV to force Excel to interpret …
Oct 11, 2002 · You can use Data > Get & Transform Data > From Text/CSV, choose your csv file, and then in the preview, click the "Transform Data" button. In the resulting Power Query Editor …
How do I convert all the cells of an excel sheet to text?
Apr 13, 2010 · 3 Given an existing Excel 2003 document with cells of any type (integers, text, decimal, etc), how do I convert the contents of every cell to text? And save all these changes …
How can I force Excel to treat a column as text? - Super User
Oct 31, 2021 · 3 I have a column in Excel that contains values such as: Mar 5934 It's actually not a date, but Excel automatically assumes that it's a date. How can I force Excel to treat it as …
Excel: Change default encoding (file origin) of Text Import Wizard …
For Value data, enter 65001 to set your default to UTF-8. For some other encoding, use the code page identifier, which you can find in the Text Import Wizard in Excel or in this list.
Excel 2007 - changes on one sheet affecting other (without cell ...
Mar 7, 2013 · 5 Some strange behaviour I've encountered twice in Excel is that changes made to one sheet would be duplicated on another sheet in the same workbook. The first time, I typed …
Stop Excel chart from changing series formatting - Super User
Apr 15, 2019 · I have copied it to this wiki answer so the question can be closed. The answer can be found in this forum post: Re: How can I stop Excel from changing the colors of my chart ? …