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Numbers showing as text in responses from MS forms
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Stephen Nash

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May 30, 2020 - 11:49 pm
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I have recently created a MS Form from Excel on line to collect water meter readings. I have created formula in the Excel document making use of the data collected in the form. The challenge I am having is that the numbers appear as text (eg. '345 instead of 345) and don't work in my formula unless I manually convert them to numbers (I know I could create another column to automate the conversion, but that is an extra step I would rather avoid).  

The survey questions have been set to capture numbers only.

Is there another setting I am missing somewhere?

 

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Stephen

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Mynda Treacy
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Hi Stephen, 

I think this is a bug and have escalated it to Microsoft. In the meantime you can add your extra column or use Power Query to automate fixing the data.

Mynda

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Thank you for your speedy response.

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