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.

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I recently needed to convert decimal numbers into base 36 in an Excel for Mac 2011 spreadsheet. Now Windows Excel has the Radix function, which converts base 10 numbers into any base between 2 and ...