How to leave a numeric variable as an attribute, that is, instead of saving it as text, it is saved as a number

[Kal_Lam]

Maybe the post discussed previously should answer your query:

Kobo outputs: numbers are stored as text

Hi Francis, I’m using Excel 2013 which allows me to do all values in one go the way I had described, even if you have text in between integer columns. Excel is just not consistent with where it displays the context menu for converting numbers stored as text. When you select the entire range using the mouse (dragging a rectangle essentially) the context menu appears on the screen where the last bottom-right cell was selected. When using the keyboard (which is faster) the context menu only shows …