需要在Excel中剥离前导零

Question

I downloaded banking account data in a csv file with fields separated by commas. I converted it into excel file succesfully, except by the fact that I couldn't remove the leading zeros en the numeric financial fields. Looks like they were pasted as text. I need to strip off the leading zeros from excel cells, and handling the numeric data afterwords. Any help? By the way: I found a lot of instructions in the web -including this site- to help doing exactly the opposite, I mean to prevent stripping off leading zeros. That is not what I need. I need the data without leading zeros. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Simple fix for numbers stored as text: enter the number 1 in a numeric cell (any will do, this is a throwaway). Copy the cell that contains 1. Select all the text numbers you want to convert to numeric. Then do Edit -> Paste Special -> Multiply . This will multiply all the data in those cells by 1. Excel will have to convert the text to numbers to do this, and the result will be a simple conversion (since anything times 1 is itself).

Let us know how it goes.

Answer 2

Try using the Value() function. It converts numeric strings, even with commas.