Good afternoon - I have a table with dollar amounts in it that is for some reason being recognized as text. I am therefore unable to insert a summary and calculate the SUM because that option is unavailable to me. Is there any way to formal the data for it to be recognized as a number?
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reformatting data in a table 1
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fisheromacse
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if the contents of the field are all numeric:
tonumber({yourtablename.yourfieldname})
otherwise you can test and only convert numeric values by using:
IF isnumeric({yourtablename.yourfieldname})
THEN tonumber({yourtablename.yourfieldname})
tonumber({yourtablename.yourfieldname})
otherwise you can test and only convert numeric values by using:
IF isnumeric({yourtablename.yourfieldname})
THEN tonumber({yourtablename.yourfieldname})
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