Comments on: Values Stored as Text

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:31:05 +0000

Thanks for that, I didn’t know about the dble click thing with format painter and its already proved useful today.

By: Scott Ellern

Scott Ellern — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:43:25 +0000

I have enjoyed and learned from your examples. Now I think I can offer a simple solution to you.
Use the Format Painter.
Start out by finding (or creating) a cell that is formatted as a number (or however you want it). Select the cell and click the little dust brush button on the tool bar. Finally select the cell or column you want to be formatted.
Note: the format will be transferred to only the first cell or range you select. You can double click the dust brush to keep the effect active till you click it off.

By: Ronald Hensbergen

Ronald Hensbergen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:55:34 +0000

It sounds like your colleague doesn’t know Excel much, so making the formula a bit harder make much difference… You could replace the formula probably with something like this:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A1+0,$A$6:$B$7,2,FALSE)),VLOOKUP(A1&”",$A$6:$B$7,2,FALSE),VLOOKUP(A1+0,$A$6:$B$7,2,FALSE))