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.

Using the Excel Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at each comma, period, or other characters.

Excel spreadsheets permit you to stay organized while managing large amounts of data, which can be organized in a number of ways. One popular way to organize this data is by date. Excel has a default ...

SEE: 83 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic) In this Microsoft Excel tutorial, I’ll show you four easy ways to convert numbers stored as text to real numbers.