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Excel changing syntax after using "text to columns" function (URGENT)

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    Excel changing syntax after using "text to columns" function (URGENT)

    Hi,
    I have a column which should contain numbers of same order of magnitude. The values you see that I have pasted in, is straight out of my Excel sheet, where the problem initiates. The first 7 values are good and look as expected. But then suddenly it goes to 10^7 instead of being in one-point-something/zero-point-something. If it wasn't because of the fact that it also switches to lower values sometimes (see "very bad") then I would be able to just multiply by 10^-7. But because of this, i cannot. I should mention manually fixing it is impossible. I have this problem in 8 sheets, with more than 1000 numbers in each. Also in three sheets with more than 7000 numbers. The values come from a datalogger at my university which I have been used to testing.
    I hope you understand my problem and can help me solve it. I use both Office 2010 and 2013.

    0.98214339 (good)
    0.98495423 (good)
    0.98770445 (good)
    0.9905972 (good)
    0.99338463 (good)
    0.99616996 (good)
    0.99907549 (good)
    10.018.161
    10.046.343
    10.074.505
    10.103.401
    10.131.392
    10.159.192
    10.186.694
    1.021.576 (VERY BAD)
    10.243.581
    10.271.509

    Kind Regards
    Ahmad
    Last edited by ahmadw; 07-03-2014 at 06:35 AM.

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