# Excel in spanish HELP!!!!!!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-in-spanish-help/170975 "2003-04-24T23:35:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nanu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dec6dc/32.png) [@Nanu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanu)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-in-spanish-help/170975/1 "2003-04-24T23:35:40Z")

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The Excel in my computer is in spanish, it doesn’t recognize the decimal point a a period “.” since in spanish the decimal point is a comma “,” .  
I have a list of 500 numbers all with periods as decimal points but my excel doesn’t recognize them as numbers, instead of changing 500 period to commas, what can I do? the excel can’t change into the english format (or I haven’t found out how to do that).  
If anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated. !!!

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-in-spanish-help/170975/2 "2003-04-25T08:22:17Z")

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how about you use a word processor to replace all the periods with commas?

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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-in-spanish-help/170975/3 "2003-04-25T10:16:11Z")

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Heck, you shouldn’t even need a word processor. You can do it right in Excel. Search and replace. If necessary format the cells as text first.