# Convert text to number or date with formulas

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-text-to-number-or-date-with-formulas/2375>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** formulas\
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-text-to-number-or-date-with-formulas/2375 "2022-01-12T23:02:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![nathan\_jay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/nathan_jay/32/11899_2.png) [@nathan\_jay](https://community.fibery.io/u/nathan_jay)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-text-to-number-or-date-with-formulas/2375/21 "2025-10-28T22:19:45Z")

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I also ran into this limitation yesterday! Although mine was about Currency formatting like $1,024.65 so it has commas and decimal places. It would be good to have arguments for number of decimal places

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**Author:** ![Josh\_A](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/josh_a/32/10470_2.png) [@Josh\_A](https://community.fibery.io/u/Josh_A)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-text-to-number-or-date-with-formulas/2375/22 "2025-12-23T17:38:27Z")

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Finding this almost 4 years later after googling for fibery text to number. Can we please have this basic feature?

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**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-text-to-number-or-date-with-formulas/2375/23 "2025-12-24T07:35:58Z")

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Yes, will be done in 2026 finally

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**Author:** ![bikesupplies](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/bikesupplies/32/15290_2.png) [@bikesupplies](https://community.fibery.io/u/bikesupplies)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-text-to-number-or-date-with-formulas/2375/24 "2026-06-12T03:42:37Z")

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Another vote at this end!

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