How to change Format of a Cell to Text using VBA

Question

I have a "duration" column in an Excel sheet. Its cell format always changes — I want convert the duration from minutes to seconds, but because of the cell formatt

Answer 1

One point: you have to set NumberFormat property BEFORE loading the value into the cell. I had a nine digit number that still displayed as 9.14E+08 when the NumberFormat was set after the cell was loaded. Setting the property before loading the value made the number appear as I wanted, as straight text.

OR:

Could you try an autofit first:

Excel_Obj.Columns("A:V").EntireColumn.AutoFit