Openpyxl "Numbers Stored as Text"

Question

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.

Background: - New to Python (and coding in general) - 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 sheet, 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?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Solution

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 int while passing the variable to Excel sheet.

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

This should fix your problem.