This means if you see a leading apostrophe in the formula bar, you know the data is a text value. When you enter an apostrophe ' as the first character in a cell, anything after will be regarded as a text value by Excel. Preceding ApostropheĪnother way that numbers can be entered as text is by using a preceding apostrophe. You will be able to see if Text is the selected formatting in the dropdown menu found in the Number section of the ribbon.
There is a quick way to determine whether or not a cell has had text formatting applied. This causes values to be entered as text values regardless of whether they are numerical. One way that numbers get entered as text is when the cell has been formatted as text. You can also customize the color used to indicate errors here. Uncheck the Enable background error checking option to disable this feature. In the Formula section of the Excel Options menu ➜ Error Checking. This will open up the Excel Options menu. Go to the File tab and then select Options at the bottom. You can turn off this error checking entirely, or customize which errors are flagged.
In this case, you can see the error is Number Stored as Text. When you click on this, it will show you what the error is. When you select such a cell a small warning icon will appear. This is why it’s flagged by Excel’s built-in error checker.Īny cells that are flagged with an error will show a small green triangle in the left of the cell to visually indicate an error. If you don’t realize you have numbers entered as text values, it can potentially cause some serious errors. Unless the alignment formatting has been changed from the default, this will be an easy way to spot numbers that have been formatted as text. The first way you might be able to tell if you have text values instead of numerical values is the way the data is aligned in the cell.īy default text is left aligned and numbers are right aligned. There are quite a few easy ways to tell! Left Aligned How can you tell if your number data has been entered as text? In this post, I will show you how you can identify such numbers which are stored as text values, and 7 ways you can use to convert the text into a proper number value.
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