XCELLERATOR NUMBER FORMATTED AS TEXT

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This video demonstration will show you how to use Incisive Xcellerator to find numbers that are formatted as text in a spreadsheet.

Number Formatted as Text

  1. Open your spreadsheet and click on ‘Start Xcellerator’ in the Incisive tab.
  2. In this example, one of the ‘1’s in the column is formatted as text.
  3. The error identified will be ‘Number formatted as text’
  4. To correct this problem, click on the error cell to reformat the text as a number. When we do that, we will still need to make the new number format active (this is Excel's behavior, not Xcellerator's).
  5. Once the cell is updated, the sum of the numbers is corrected from 9 to 10.
  6. Rescan to find that the error has been corrected.