How to Convert Excel to Text & Set Column Width. Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas ...

Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.

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.

You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.

SEE: 83 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic) In this Microsoft Excel tutorial, I’ll show you four easy ways to convert numbers stored as text to real numbers.

Click "OK" to change the cells' type from Text to Date and convert the dates to the proper format. Press "Ctrl-S" to save the spreadsheet.