Any ideas on turning string data into numerical data in excel that’s faster/easier to automate/better than using text to columns? Wish I could use alteryx, but not an option for this use case.

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If it's the exact same format month after month after month, a Power Query routine might be your Alteryx substitute.

Otherwise... hard to know for sure without example data, but there's probably some chunky Excel method that might or might not be easy and efficient.

Might need to read up on PQs though- thank you!

Could you give me an example? I feel like a macro could do the trick if all you want is to convert nunbers stored as text to numbers.

Happy to help 😄

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