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The dreaded Apostrophe is turning numbers into text in a forms spreadsheet
I answered my first question by checking one of my other sheets, but this one is a bit trickier. When people use MS Forms, even for questions I have added restrictions to so it must be a number, ...
I guess the Form is linked to Excel file hosted on SharePoint site. That issue is known for years, at least two workarounds
1) If you have column [Question 1] which have number as text, you may add to the table additional column Q1 as =@[Question 1]*1, or =CLEAN(@[Question 1])*1, etc and work with these columns. Adding of additional columns into the forms table won't crash the process.
2) Instead of linked table use Power Automate which is triggered by form submit and adds rows to the table in your file. In this case not linked with the Form. Transformation could be done within Power Automate flow.
Thanks for specifying that you use restrictions.
I always use restrictions and can't recall seeing this issue, so I thought that was the cause when a user reported it to me.
Now I know that isn't necessarily the solution.
I always use restrictions and can't recall seeing this issue, so I thought that was the cause when a user reported it to me.
Now I know that isn't necessarily the solution.