Ok, here is the case:
I have an Excel file in .xlsx format. One of the cells contains the value 132,6 and it's format is number. This means that Excel shows the number as 132,60. Now because it represents a price (132 euro and 60 cents) I'd like to keep it in this format 132,60.
Now I need to convert all cells to text format for purposes that aren't important in this question. Because the value is actually 132,6, after the conversion this is the text value shown, instead of the 132,60. But I'd like to maintain the trailing zero when converting it to text.
Is there any VBA implementation for this?
this format should work
=TEXT(A2;"#'##0.00")
EDIT: In VBA
Below snippet will convert numbers in selection to text.
Sub aMacro()
Dim SelRange As Range
Set SelRange = Selection
For Each c In SelRange.Cells
c.Value = Format(c.Value, "###0.00")
Next
End Sub
Related
I've got a problem when I'm trying to paste data into excel. I'm downloading data in excel sheet, but in some cells there are numbers of length of 22 digits so excel converts them to scientific notation and after changing the format to text only 15 first digits are correct and else are zeros, Is there any way to convert the numbers from that scientific notation back into exact number. In my opinion no, but maybe there is some way?
Thanks in advance :)
Try to format the range of excel as Text, before writing the number there. Then it will be ok. But you will not be able to make any formula calculations:
Public Sub TestMe()
Dim largeNumber As String
largeNumberic = largeNumber
Range("A1").NumberFormat = "#"
Range("A1").NumberFormat = largeNumber
End Sub
I need to put data validation on a range of cells so that you can enter no more and no less than 9 characters in those cells. The problem is that SOMETIMES those 9 characters will be all number ... and that "number string" will start with a zero ... e.g. 012345678. Excel will remove the zero, as it recognizes that string as a number and my validation kicks in saying that I need to enter 9 characters into that field.
Any ideas?
Format the range of cells as Text. This will prevent Excel from trimming leading zeroes.
=TEXT(Cellwithnumber,"000000000")
Normally, if you format a range as text prior to typing in data (by right-clicking → format cells) or with something like
Dim c As Object
For Each c In Selection.Cells
c.NumberFormat = "#"
Next c
or
ActiveSheet.Cells.NumberFormat = "#"
Excel wont cut the leading zeroes.
If other users are using your sheet, you could protect the cell formats, so they don't accidentally change it back to numbers by, say, pasting data in with formats.
You could create a new cell and enter them as text formulas. Say the value you want to get the 0 from is in A1, enter your formula in a cell:
=TEXT(A1,"000000000")
That will show the leading 0.
If you want to use VBA:
rngTarget.NumberFormat = "#" ' rngTarget is a Range, can be e.g. ActiveCell or ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 2) or ActiveSheet.Range("B8")
I've pasted some numbers on Excel spreadsheet and wanted to do some calculations with it. The problem is that Excel isn't recognizing the numbers. I've already tried several methods to convert them into numbers and none of them works: paste/special multiplying by 1; formating each cell to the number/scientific number format. And there isn't also an error message on the top right corner of each cell like I've read on the internet indicating that there is a number written as text. If I retype each number, Excel recognizes it.
To make sure that the problem was really that the numbers were understood by Excel as text, I tried the functions ISNUMBER(), that returned FALSE and ISTEXT() that returned true.
I want to know how I can fix that problem without having to type into each cell.
Ps. the numbers are in scientific number format, i.e., 1,085859E+001
Since the column is text the cells are formatted as text.
you use Value to convert the text into a number so the formula will work
A2 = 123
A3 = 123 Richard
Formula
=isnumber(A2) result is false
use
=isnumber(value(A2)) result is True
I was having the same problem, until I realized that the decimal separator was set as (,) instead of (.) in the default settings. Once I changed that, everything worked fine.
If your "numbers" are being detected as text, you can use VALUE() to make sure Excel understands that it is actually a number.
A1: `1.23E+10 (this is a string)
B1: =VALUE(A1)
=12300000000
C1: 1.23E+10 (this is a number)
D1: =IF(B1==C1,"It worked", "Uh Oh")
=It Worked (for me anyway)
I'm not sure what the comma in your scientific number will do so might want to have the function replace them if there not required.
See Kenneth Hobs' answer here: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?42119-Solved-Convert-exponential-format-to-a-number
Open your Excel File, Press Alt + f11 to open the VBA screen,
Go to Insert > Module, Copy and Paste Kenneth's code:
Sub Expo()
Dim cell As Range, s() As String, lng As Long, n As Integer
For Each cell In Selection
With cell
If Not VarType(.Value2) = vbString Then GoTo NextCell
s() = Split(cell.Value2, "E")
.Value2 = s(0) * 1 * (1 * 10 ^ s(1)) 'ePart(s(1))
.NumberFormat = "General"
.EntireColumn.AutoFit
End With
NextCell:
Next cell
End Sub
You can now run it as a macro to convert selected cells. Or if you want it as a function copy this code instead:
Function Expo(cell As Range)
Dim s() As String
With cell
If VarType(.Value2) = vbString Then
s() = Split(.Value2, "E")
Expo = s(0) * 1 * (1 * 10 ^ s(1)) 'ePart(s(1))
End If
End With
End Function
This way you can use it as a normal function in excel eg =Expo(A1)
As I mentioned in the comments above though, you will have already lost some degree of accuracy when the original number was converted to scientific notation. The best solution is to get the originating program to write the proper numbers into the text file if you can.
Open a new word document and try Pasting the web content in word first, the copy this content from the word document and paste special in excel, as text. This simple solution worked for me
Open a new blank Excel, then go to Data > From Text, this way you can import text and designate which format you want to convert to. On the Text Import Wizard page, select either Delimited or Fixed width (I am not sure how your original text file look like but generally it should be Delimited. On the next page, pick a Delimiter or enter one in Others. On step 3, you should see the data listed below and the data format on the upper left. Pick General for those columns that you believe should not be Text. This should fix your problem.
My case was stubborn, no response to Paste Special or CLEAN(). Finally resolved by copying the offending column of Excel data and pasting into new Notepad++ doc. This revealed a leading "?" in all the bad numbers (apparently some non-printing character). Used Search > Replace to find all "?" and replace with nothing. Edit > Select All, copy to a new Excel column, and voilà!
There may be hidden characters. Trailing/leading spaces may not visible and hence erroneously be neglected. If there is trailing/leading Space characters with numeric values, excel consider it as text.
Copy contents problematic cells to MS-Word [(Select problematic cells and copy them to MS-Word)] and check any hidden characters, Remove hidden characters with "find"/"replace" functionality.
I was having issues with numbers from PPT (e.g. ($3,000))pasted to excel. Tried multiple different ways to get the text to recognize including find replacing parens, commas, $ signs to blank and trying to format so excel could run formulas. The only option that worked was to paste to Word first then paste value to excel which worked without any additional formatting steps. Surprised I could not do it all within excel though. Maybe there's another way
Select all the cells to convert to a number.
|Data| Menu Tab > Data Tools > [Text to columns]
Delimited. [Next]
Deselect all "Delimiters". [Next]
"Column data format" > General
[Finish]
Verify by using =ISNUMBER(C16) in an spare cell, where C16 is a sample cell. Should now return TRUE.
This happened to me lately. I had forgotten that I had set formula recalculation to manual. The weird thing is that it was returing FALSE when initially created (which was correct) but given the test depended on the value of other cells that, when changed, did not trigger the change in the cell with the isnumber() formula.
Pressing F9 "fixed" my problem (and my ignorance).
I have (what seems like it should be) a simple problem. I need to be able to tell excel (in vba) that a cell's contents are numeric, but I don't really want to apply any formatting to it. I need my trailing zeros left how they are. Am I missing something incredibly simple?
Update:
I'm getting xml data from a query and am placing it into the spreadsheets. But lets say one of the cells has 589.950000 I need to keep those additional zeros on display for the user (don't ask me why, they just want the precision) but excel converts it to 589.95. I also need for them to be able to do spreadsheet calculations on that cell (so I can't format it as text).
Update 2:
Further Clarification. Lets say I have 4 values that I'm going to place into a column
595.56000
15.00
90.00050
1919.120000000
is there one numeric format that I can apply to that column that will display those exact numbers?
You can't do this with one custom format.
What you can do is make a macro that does the input for you and modifies each cell format as it puts the value into it. You can use the Macro Recorder to get a handle on where to start with this.
I think you can do:
Val(Range("A1").Value)
Which will evalulate the text to a number
You mean you want to use the value of the cell as a numerical one but you don't want to change the real val of the cell ?
In vba, you can use CInt(yourvar) to convert a string to number. Thus, the value you get will sure be an integer.
[edit] Btw, if you want to display or set back the value to a cell with the format you want, you can use the Format ( expression, [ format ] ) function of Excel vba
[edit 2]
As you cannot predict how many zeros you will have, i can't see any number format that would work. You'd probably better use the Text format as Lance Robert suggested. To use formula on text cells, you can use the VALUE formula to convert the cell to use it as a number. If you need it on a range, you may have to use array formulas like this : {=SUM(IF(ISTEXT(A1:A4);VALUE(A1:A4);A1:A4))}.
Please let us know if you want some help on these formulas.
Regards,
Max
If you know the number of decimal places you need, you can use something like the following:
Range("A1").NumberFormat = "0.000000"
I suppose you could even get fancy and check the number of trailing 0s in the code and adjust the formatting as required.
UPDATE:
Here's a VBA function that takes the number as a string and returns the appropriate NumberFormat string.
Private Function trailing(strNum As String) As String
'From number entered as string, returns Excel Number format to preserve trailing zeroes in decimal.
Dim decpt As Integer
Dim aftdec As Integer
Dim strTmp As String
decpt = InStr(strNum, ".")
If decpt = 0 Then
strTmp = "0"
Else
aftdec = Len(strNum) - decpt
strTmp = "0."
If aftdec <> 0 Then
For i = 1 To aftdec
strTmp = strTmp & "0"
Next
End If
End If
trailing = strTmp
End Function
Can't believe I just stumbled on this...
I know it's old but might as well give very simple answer:
Custom format and simply use # symbol. Will be treated as integer and left exactly as typed in to cell.
In a cell in Excel sheet I have a Date value like:
01/01/2010 14:30:00
I want to convert that Date to Text and also want the Text to look exactly like Date. So a Date value of 01/01/2010 14:30:00 should look like 01/01/2010 14:30:00 but internally it should be Text.
How can I do that in Excel?
=TEXT(A1,"DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss")
(24 hour time)
=TEXT(A1,"DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss AM/PM")
(standard time)
Here is a VBA approach:
Sub change()
toText Sheets(1).Range("A1:F20")
End Sub
Sub toText(target As Range)
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In target
cell.Value = cell.Text
cell.NumberFormat = "#"
Next cell
End Sub
If you are looking for a solution without programming, the Question should be moved to SuperUser.
Here's another option. Use Excel's built in 'Text to Columns' wizard. It's found under the Data tab in Excel 2007.
If you have one column selected, the defaults for file type and delimiters should work, then it prompts you to change the data format of the column. Choosing text forces it to text format, to make sure that it's not stored as a date.
In some contexts using a ' character beforehand will work, but if you save to CSV and load again this is impossible.
'01/01/2010 14:30:00
Couldnt get the TEXT() formula to work
Easiest solution was to copy paste into Notepad and back into Excel with the column set to Text before pasting back
Or you can do the same with a formula like this
=DAY(A2)&"/"&MONTH(A2)&"/"&YEAR(A2)& " "&HOUR(B2)&":"&MINUTE(B2)&":"&SECOND(B2)
I have no idea about the year of publication of the question; it might be old now. So, I expect my answer to be more of a reference for future similar questions after my post.
I don't know if anybody out there has already given an answer similar to the one I am about to give, which might result -I think- being the simplest, most direct and most effective: If someone has already given it, I apologize, but I haven't seen it. Here, my answer using CStr instead of TEXT:
Asuming cell A1 contains a date, and using VBA code:
Dim strDate As String
'Convert to string the value contained in A1 (a date)
strDate = CStr([A1].Value)
You can, thereafter, manipulate it as any ordinary string using string functions (MID, LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, CONCATENATE (&), etc.)
If you are not using programming then do the following
(1) select the column
(2) right click and select Format Cells
(3) Select "Custom"
(4) Just Under "Type:" type dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss
In Excel 2010, marg's answer only worked for some of the data I had in my spreadsheet (it was imported). The following solution worked on all data.
Sub change()
toText Selection
End Sub
Sub toText(target As range)
Dim cell As range
Dim txt As String
For Each cell In target
txt = cell.text
cell.NumberFormat = "#"
cell.Value2 = txt
Next cell
End Sub
As Text is localized it will break when trying you try to share your files over diffrent cultures. ÅÅÅÅ-MM-DD might work perfectly in sweden, is US, Germany or israel it will turn to shit.
The reasonable solution would be that english was accepted everywhere, but it's not.
Basically DON'T EVER use text as intended to format dates.
Here is how to create the date in ISO format. TEXT is used to ensure leading
=YEAR(A1)&"-"&TEXT(MONTH(A1);"00")&"-"&TEXT(DAY(A1);"00")
If you want it backwards, sideways or whatever, just change it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/comments/enhlp6/logic_of_the_different_date_time_systems_with/
The selected answer did not work for me as Excel was still not converting the text to date. Here is my solution.
Say that in the first column, A, you have data of the type 2016/03/25 21:20:00 but is stored as text. Then in column B write =DATEVALUE(A1) and in column C write =TIMEVALUE(A1).
Then in column D do =B1+C1 to add the numerical formats of the date and time.
Finally, copy the values from D into column E by right clicking in column E and select Paste Special -> Paste as Values.
Highlight the numerical values in column E and change the data type to date - I prefer using a custom date of the form YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.