Openpyxl "Numbers Stored as Text"

Question

Background:

• Using Pycharm w/ Openpyxl
• I work a lot in Excel and have been trying to automate some small daily tasks using python to increase my understanding of the language

Situation:

• I am trying to modify an existing xlsx spreadsheet, and have been able to successfully change formatting like column width, zoom, etc.
• However, I am really struggling with the dreaded "Numbers stored as text" scenario. There is a specific range of columns (Z:AZ) that always contain numbers, but they are stored as text by default.

Question:

• Has anyone had experience converting text to numbers within an existing worksheet?

I've done some extensive searching on StackOverflow as well as many other sites and can't seem to find a solution that will work for me.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

As you are getting Numbers Stored as Text error, I believe that the value you are adding in the Excel worksheet is String. Please confirm this by displaying type of your variable.

type(variable_name)

If it is <class'str'>, then add float while passing the variable to Excel sheet.

your_number = '412.5876'
ws['A1'] = float(your_number)

This should fix your problem.