How to Convert Text to Numbers in Google Sheets
Learn how to convert text that appears as numbers into actual numbers in Google Sheets, ensuring your calculations work correctly. This video covers various formatting techniques to achieve accurate data representation.
Sometimes you have numbers that are not numbers essentially and you want to make them numbers. So we're going to convert some text to numbers . Now you can really clearly see this because the number is not going to be like all the other numbers. So the numbers that are to the right, this is an automatic number . And and one of the common things that happens is when we copy and paste data from somewhere else into Google Sheets, sometimes the automatic formatting is not correct for any number of reasons. It could be that there is some extra commas or not commas or whatever, but you'll see format number and you might see automatic here is checked, but it's actually not for all of them. Uh it's just suggesting you should do that essentially. So let's go to format
number . Try automatic first. If that doesn't work, try format number number . That might add a couple of zeros. Then you're going to decrease decimal places, too. There's another way you can do it, which is number and then go down to custom currency or rather custom number format , not custom currency. And here we can see that the one here is a comma hashtag hashtagzero. What this is going to do that is if it's four letters, four numbers or more, it's going to add a comma. If you have a zero here, like these two zeros, you'll always have a leading zero. So, it'll be like 0 1 02, but above 10, it will look normal. And you can customize this
number anyway. If you don't want a leading zero and you don't want any commas, you can just put a single zero here. You can even type it in or select it here. Apply. And we have no commas, no nothing. But if we want some commas, let's go to format custom number format and add hashtag comma #0ero and apply that. And we have some commas now. So there we can convert some text to numbers . And this might help your count ifs, your sum ifs, your countalls, your sum. If those are not working correctly, try this trick to actually just convert all the text that you think is numbers into actual numbers. That might do the trick. You're watching Better Sheets here on YouTube. Make sure you check out this video or this video
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