Excel identifies when it reads any character within a cell that is not a number.

It is identified as a Text. Microsoft excel is a tool wherein you track and visualize data where it features calculations, graphing and many others. Therefore, a cell is only considered as a number if and only if it has pure numbers, it shouldn't contain any letters, hyphens or spaces.

Ithink you should continue to put it in the rice or try to dry it with a hair blower or go to a phone repair place so they can get as much water out as possible, these may or may not work so sorry if it doesn’t

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