Wondering how to convert text to numbers in Excel? Our guide features three different methods for the task.

Why is my number stored as text in Excel? Excel doesn’t convert numbers written in text into digits if you import data from another source because of the default setting.

Navigate to the "Number" group within the "Home" tab in Excel. Click the small arrow beside the "Number Format" box. Click "Text" to convert your cells to text formatting.

hmmmm Excel is ususally good at interpreting stuff that looks like a number as a number. It may be that there are additional characters (perhaps control characters) in the data from your report. Have ...