Numbers that are stored as text in Excel can cause unexpected results. You need to convert numbers stored as text to numbers. Here's how!

Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert text into upper case, lower case, title case, and even sentence case with minimal effort.

Using the Excel Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at each comma, period, or other characters.

Navigate to the "Number" group within the "Home" tab in Excel. Click the small arrow beside the "Number Format" box. Click "Text" to convert your cells to text formatting.

Perhaps Excel will create a built-in function to convert text to sentence case in the future, but until then, a formula will work. If you would like to follow along in building this formula, you can ...