Longitude & Latitude data decimals

littlepatos

I have a dataset with longitude & latitude data which looks like 12.631454 and I am trying to transform the data to a number using "Change type" and decimal character 0.00 but when I do this it replaces the numbers with a single ? Even when I am trying to convert another column which has Ratings data and has numbers 4.5, 5 etc it converts the integer correctly but the float is replaced with a ? I have gone into Preferences and set Fraction Digits from Numbers to 9 and Fraction digits of percent values to 4.  Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?  I've googled and searched the forum but can't seem to work it out.  Thanks

littlepatos

Thanks

BalazsBarany

Hi!

Are you using TurboPrep?

The "decimal character" needs to be just one character, in your case the dot (.). 0.00 is a format string which you can't use in this context.

Fraction Digits in the Preferences only apply to the display of numbers, not the processing.

Regards,

Balázs

littlepatos

Thanks