Convert Number Cells to Text Highlight the cell or cells on your spreadsheet that you'd like to convert to text. These cells can be empty or filled.

For example, to convert 37.3 C in cell B3 below, I’ve entered the formula =CONVERT (B3,”C”,”F”) in cell B9 to derive 99.1 F. The syntax of this function requires you to reference the number to be ...

Numbers that are stored as text can cause unexpected results, especially when you use these cells in Excel functions such as SUM and AVERAGE because these functions ignore cells that have text ...