in reply to Re^4: excel format problem
in thread excel format problem

Yes, but now Excel will ignore it as a number. For example, with cell B4 containing =SUM(B1:B3):

AB
1 1
2 0x2
3 3
4 Total: 4

— the total is 4, not 6 as expected. As a rule, numerical data entered into an Excel spreadsheet should be available to be used as numerical data — that’s what a spreadsheet is for, after all! So, prefer choroba’s approach given above.

Hope that helps,

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