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I'm the author of the Excel to IDF macro you linked to.

What you're getting is simply a locale issue: your decimal separator is the comma , while the macro assumes you are using the dot ..

EnergyPlus IDF format uses the , as a field separator, so it's getting really confused here.

The easiest fix is probably is to temporarily change the decimal separator, see Microsoft Help, though I thing selected all your numeric cells (your entire column here) and searching for , and replacing with . should work too.

I'm the author of the Excel to IDF macro you linked to.

What you're getting is simply a locale issue: your decimal separator is the comma , while the macro assumes you are using the dot ..

EnergyPlus IDF format uses the , as a field separator, so it's getting really confused here.

The easiest fix is probably is to temporarily change the decimal separator, see Microsoft Help, though I thing selected think selecting all your numeric cells (your entire column here) and searching for , and replacing with . should work too.