Turn text to number using the Excel VALUE function. Use the Paste special functionality to convert text to number in Excel. Apply a number format to digits stored as text. Use Error Checking to convert text-formatted numbers. In case you want to translate words to digits, like "seven" to 7, please see English words into numbers on our Blogs. If you need to convert string to number in Excel on a regular basis, have a look at the parts where I write about a special VBA macro and the Cell Cleaner add-in. If text-formatted numbers prevent from the further work with your data, you can convert them back to number format using the Excel VALUE function, the standard Format Numbers option, Paste Special window or Numbers Stored as Text error indicator. Most of the time Excel would recognize numbers in such cases as text. Unwanted formatting of numbers may occur if you imported data into Excel from an external source, or if you created a file in a different program (dBASE or Lotus 1-2-3). 
To perform math operations like counting, summing, etc.To make such functions as LOOKUP, VLOOKUP and MATCH work correctly.You may have at least three reasons to convert text-formatted numbers in Excel.
Today I'll show you this process reversed.
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In my previous article, I described how to convert number to text. Those who want to automate the task will find a helpful VBA macro and a special add-in.
You'll see how to make Excel treat digits as numbers with the help of the VALUE function, error checking, Paste Special and applying the number format. In this article, I'll show you how to convert text digits to number using several options in Excel 2010-2013.
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