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I am attempting to automate a daily extract for account transactions. This extract ranges from 100 - 15000 lines on any given day. Below is an example of my data:

Account Action to be taken
8523 Needs to be converted to a number
84A2 No action needed
8523 Needs to be converted to a number
0749 Needs to remain as text stored as a number
2GP1 No action needed
8181 Needs to be converted to a number
0489 Needs to remain as text stored as a number

[code]...

As you can see, I have three types of data:

1) accounts with leading zeros which need to be stored as text

2) accounts with mixed formats which can remain as text

3) accounts that are purely numerical without leading zeros. I need to convert these from text to numbers.

Since the extract can be up to 15000 lines long, going through the data to manually convert the appropriate cells from text to numbers is unreasonable, especially when this has to be done daily.

Is it possible to script this task? I've tried a number of things, but unfortunately my knowledge of VB isn't very extensive. This is the best that I've come up with:

Code:
LastRow = Range("a" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
For i = LastRow To 1 Step -1
If Cells(i, "a").Value "0*" Then
Cells(i, "a").Format.General
End If
Next

But I'm failing on the line highlighted in red.

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