Numbers that are stored as text in Excel can cause unexpected results. You need to convert numbers stored as text to numbers. Here's how!

Read: How to combine text from multiple cells into one cell in Excel How do I convert text to numbers in Excel? Once you paste the text (containing numbers) in the cell, you can change the cell ...

Navigate to the "Number" group within the "Home" tab in Excel. Click the small arrow beside the "Number Format" box. Click "Text" to convert your cells to text formatting.

Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert text into upper case, lower case, title case, and even sentence case with minimal effort.

Microsoft Excel is part of the Microsoft Office software package. It is a spreadsheet program that allows the user to enter both numerical data and words and apply formulas to quickly perform ...

Perhaps Excel will create a built-in function to convert text to sentence case in the future, but until then, a formula will work. If you would like to follow along in building this formula, you can ...