Excel Convert Text to Numbers Keyboard Shortcuts

Tutorial on how to convert text to numbers in Excel using keyboard shortcuts and Excel's built-in Convert to Number function.

Checkout this video for more keyboard shortcuts with the Menu Key including ignoring errors and paste options like paste values.

[sarahpierzynowski]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR!! Was very close to throwing entire system out the window.

[gmail]

Your method is better and faster than using ACL 2:00 3:00

[MessyRecipes]

Thank you SO much - I have been trying to find this one shortcut for the longest while, and you answered it for me. Thank you!

[Chandana-oqrz]

Thankss, was looking for this stufff.

[angelinali]

Great! has been searching for this for ages!

[thepans]

what if the built in icon doesn't appear as I only have few cells in a column that need to be converted?

[jimmyed]

Helped me out of a great stuck. Thanks for the video.

[tonyravindran]

Thank You
I was looking for this shortcut for quite sometime

[kaskalo]

Is there a keyboard shortcut to open this "air box" (if i understood name properly)? Like, for example, when you paste, CTRL is shortcut to open that "air box" and then you can pres V, R, F...

[edforteza]

Thank you so much, you're a great help in computation of my grades...

[jimmyrebello]

Finally right video to what i was searching thanks 👍

[rajdravida]

Thanks Brother this helped me

From India

[SusieSebastian]

What a time saver! Thanks for posting!

[dilumdilshan]

Why is excel asking to sort my numbers alphabetically? If anyone suffers from this problem, use the "text to columns" option in the "Data tab". This happens especially when we are using datasets exported from devices like GPSs. The coordinates are sometimes stored as strings (within " " marks. Example - "6.1234" ; but excel doesn't show the quotations in it). So when we use those data in excel, it doesn't act as a numbering value so we can't just use text to numbers solutions to convert those data into numbers. With the "text to Column" option we can isolate the numbering part (from "6.1234" to 6.1234). Hope this might save someone's day!!

[cercilanister]

When I chek all the coumn the sum in ribbon bar isnot the real some, is there any hidden cells or what?

[jovetaino]

The title is totally misleading.  I was looking for a shortcut key to open the error checking box to convert number to text (or a shortcut key to convert number to text) once the range is selected.  Five minutes of this is showing me different shortcuts on how to select a range and then using my mouse to click the error checking box.

[choua]

my excel don't havec smart tag that convert text to number.

[carlodigma]

THANKS IT CONVERT BUT WHEN I ADD IT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF MERGE CELL HOW COULD WE DO IT. GOD BLESS.

[NewCastleIndiana]

just got excel (365) for mac. I don't have option to convert to numbers.

[mealjofam]

How can i covert multi-response Survey Questions where multiple responses texted in one cell and there are thousands of cell with such format