Microsoft Excel multiplies each cell by 1, and in doing so, converts the text to numbers. We hope this tutorial helps you understand how to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Excel.

Tips You can convert OpenOffice.org text documents to Excel with the text import tool. Save the text document with the .txt file extension, open it in Excel and save it as an Excel spreadsheet.

1] Convert Word to plain text, import to Excel, and save in Excel format You can try this simple trick if you want to convert a Word document to Excel without using a third-party tool or application.

You can take the information in a mailing label document and convert it to a column-based spreadsheet in Excel provided you you know how to prepare the document.

You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected to an online data source.

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