Then press one of the number keys at the top of the keyboard.

This might make it easier to use two hands to press the combination. However, you can also use the Ctrl & Shift keys on the right side of the keyboard. The diagram shows the Ctrl & Shift keys on the left side. Here is a quick guide that explains what each shortcut does. The Ctrl+Shift+Number Key shortcuts allow us to quickly apply some of the most popular number formatting options including: currency, percent, number, date, and time. If you spend a lot of time formatting numbers in Excel (who doesn't?) then you will love these shortcuts. This function needs to be put in the module in the worksheet or simply copy this to your personal.xlsb to access it from any of the Download Number Format Shortcuts Guide SInput = Replace$(sInput, Mid$(RemoveChars, i, 1), '') 'this will remove spaces

The following vba code using a list marked as RemoveChars that are removed from the string under consideration.įunction removeSpecial(sInput As String) As String it only takes the value and converts it to number.Īpproach # 3 – Using VBA to remove characters: N() is another function present under math function section. The returned result is text hence we multiply it with 1 to get a numeric value.Īpproach # 2 – Extracting numeric value with N(): Where B1 is the cell in which we have the text and we want to eliminate comma “,”. The following formula works a treat when substituting for commas Text is the Text we want to remove the commas from, old text is the text we want to remove for our case this is comma, instance_num is optional, if you specify, the specific instance will be removed, and otherwise all the instances will be removed. In this short tutorial, will show you how to make such numbers actually work like numbers!Ĭonsider a Number like this one: 12,645,990Īpproach # 1 – Substituting commas with a Formula:Įxcel has a built in function called SUBSTITUTE() that we use to substitute values in a text.

The problem starts with the indication that numbers starts aligning to the left like text and they either have extra spaces or have imprint able characters that do not appear clearly but make numbers behave in an unusual manner.

We encounter this problem of numbers behaving as text with commas when we import data from some other software in to excel sheet.

Excel add commas in numbers