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 ...

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.

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.