I know what to do to import mixed data types or force the import
to treat everything as a text. But what about the other way
round???  I have spent weeks (really!) to search for a good
solution to import Excel data as numbers. It sounds so simple
and I am almost going crazy because I just don't see a way to
achieve it.  Imagine this: There are 2 columns A and B which
contain account codes and account descriptions. This will be
imported as text and I am fine with it. But then I have 12 more
columns C to N which should contain only numbers.  Unfortunately
these 12 columns have text in the first 5 rows. It might happen
that in one whole column there are only 1 or 2 numbers further
down in the rows. So the majority is text.  But I need to import
it as numbers. Because when it is imported as text it will take
the format of the Excel sheet. And this is really bad because I
am loosing decimals and negative values appear differently.
Unfortunately I cannot rely on the formats because I am getting
more than 300 Excel