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MS Office Forum / Excel / Programming / May 2008Is it possible to change and entire worksheet to text?
I have these files that I am receiving in Excel that are not set up to be database friendly. I am spending hours cutting and pasting to rearrange them into a mode where I can import them into a little Access Database that I have. The problem is they are full of serial numbers some with symbols and/or letters some with not. The field in Access is text and so I want to convert all the information in the Excel files to text rather than a mixture of values and text. I have been using the =TEXT function but the way the worksheets are it is just as cumbersome as all the cutting and pasting. I was hoping for a little macro to just covert everything but in my searches I cannot find a way. Does anybody know of one? Thanks Carrie Hi Carrie, Addresing the second part of your post: =========== want to convert all the information in the Excel files to text rather than a mixture of values and text. I have been using the =TEXT function but the way the worksheets are it is just as cumbersome as all the cutting and pasting. I was hoping for a little macro to just covert everything but in my searches I cannot find a way. Does anybody know of one? =========== Try: Select all data Menu | Format | Number | Text --- Regards. Norman >I have these files that I am receiving in Excel that are not set up to be > database friendly. I am spending hours cutting and pasting to rearrange [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Thanks > Carrie Thanks Norman - However I didn't just want to format I needed to change the values to text. But I think I have solved the issue by inserting a row of text first and then uploading to Access then it will recognize the entire column as text. Carie >Hi Carrie, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> Thanks >> Carrie I have never tried it, but it seems like Cells.Value = CStr(Cells.Value) should work. > Thanks Norman - > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >> Thanks > >> Carrie Hmmmmmm - That sounds interesting, I'll give it a try and let you know. >I have never tried it, but it seems like Cells.Value = CStr(Cells.Value) >should work. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> Thanks >> >> Carrie Select all the cells with values and run this macro Sub ChangeAllToText() Dim myC As Range For Each myC In Selection myC.Value = "'" & myC.Text Next myC End Sub The line Cells.Value = CStr(Cells.Value) won't work because you will lose the formatting - .Text shows the formatted value, and you need to loop through to put the ' in front of the values, (especially date values) to keep them from converting back from text. HTH, Bernie MS Excel MVP > Hmmmmmm - That sounds interesting, I'll give it a try and let you know. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >>> >> Thanks >>> >> Carrie Worked like a charm - Thx you guys just saved me many many painful hours! Carrie >Select all the cells with values and run this macro > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>>> >> Thanks >>>> >> Carrie |
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